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How To Display The Senders True Email Address

Knowing how to display email headers is very useful in finding out who actually sent you the eMail.   Below is information on how to display the full header section.  Each email program has a different header-display procedure.  Find your email program on the list below for more information on displaying the true senders info.

More Information on Headers:

How to display the full headers in various email programs:

More Information on Headers:

What is a full header and why is it useful?

Email headers allow one to track where on the Internet an email originated.  Because it is very easy to forge an email address, it is important to view the full header to determine the "true" point of origination of an email.
 
What does a full header look like? 

-----------------Start Example of FULL Header-----------------

Received: (qmail 12442 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2006 00:33:58 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO pre-smtp05-02.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net) ([64.202.166.15])
       (envelope-sender )
          by smtp12-02.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP
          for ; 20 Jul 2006 00:33:58 -0000
Received: (qmail 14410 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2006 00:33:58 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO ns11.seeyes.it) ([80.247.73.114])
          (envelope-sender )
          by pre-smtp05-02.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP
          for ; 20 Jul 2006 00:33:58 -0000
Received: from nobody by ns11.seeyes.it with local (Exim 4.52)
	id 1G3MUC-0004p2-LQ
	for YourAddress@yahoo.com; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 02:33:52 +0200
To: YourAddress@your.com
From: Donald Knuth (donaldknuth@donaldknuth.com)
Reply-To: donaldlolaye@yahoo.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Message-Id: 
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 02:33:52 +0200
X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report
X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - ns11.seeyes.it
X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - yahoo.com
X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [99 500] / [47 12]
X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - ns11.seeyes.it
X-Source: 
X-Source-Args: /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
X-Source-Dir: arceracing.it:/public_html/news/media/root
X-Nonspam: None
X-NAS-BWL: No match found for 'donaldknuth@donaldknuth.com' (446 addresses, 0 domains)  Do you think he might be a SPAMMER? LOL
X-NAS-Language: English
X-NAS-Bayes: #0: 1; #1: 4.80553E-022
Subject: HI
X-NAS-Classification: 1
X-NAS-MessageID: 10828
X-NAS-Validation: {0F0474F9-5274-46B7-81E6-8EC80983FCCF}


---------------End Example of FULL Header---------------
 
What does a partial header NOT look like? 
------------Example Incomplete Header------------

Date: 20 Jul 2006 00:33:58 EST
From: Donald Knuth (donaldknuth@donaldknuth.com)
Subject: Hi
Reply-To: donaldlolaye@yahoo.com

----------End Example Incomplete Header----------

 

How to display the full headers in various email programs:

Netscape 4.x for PC / MAC:

  1. Select the message in question.
  2. Double-click on the mail message to open it.
  3. Click on the "View" option on the main toolbar, then select "Header," and then "Full."
Netscape 3.x for PC / MAC:
  1. Select the message in question.
  2. Click on the "Options" option in the main toolbar, then select "Show Headers," and then the "All."
Microsoft Outlook 97/98 for PC:

  1. Open message in Full-View (you double-click on the message in the "Message Listing" pane.)
  2. Left-click on the "View" menu and select "Options".
Microsoft Outlook Express for PC
  1. Select the message in question.
  2. Click on the "File" menu and select "Properties".
  3. Click on the "Details" tab on the top of the window.
Eudora Light / Pro 3.x for PC
  1. Select the message in question.
  2. Double-click on the message to open it.
  3. Find the message button bar.  This is not the main toolbar, but the button bar immediately above the message text pane of the message viewer.
  4. Click on the "Blah Blah Blah" button on this toolbar.
Microsoft Outlook Express for MAC:
  1. Select the message in question.
  2. Click on the "View" option on the main toolbar.
  3. Select the "Show Internet Headers" option.
Microsoft Mail and News for MAC:
  1. Click on "Edit" on the main toolbar.
  2. Select "Preferences."
  3. Click on the "Display" option on the left-hand pane of the "Preferences" menu.
  4. Click on the checkbox next to "Show message headers in message windows."
Eudora Light 3.x for MAC:
  1. Select the message in question.
  2. Double-click on the message to open it.
  3. Find  the message button bar.  This is not the main toolbar, but the button bar immediately above the message text pane of the message viewer.
  4. Click on the "Blah Blah Blah" button on this toolbar.
Pegasus Mail 2.x for MAC:
  1. Click on "File" on the main toolbar.
  2. Select "Preferences," and the suboption "General Preferences."
  3. Click on the checkbox "Show all headers when reading messages."
Pine:
  1. Enable the full header command. (NOTE: This step only needs to be done once. The change is permanent.)
    1. Type 's' for Setup
    2. Type 'c' for Config.
    3. Scroll down the list of features until you find enable-full-header-cmd, and type 'x' until you see an 'X' in the checkbox.
    4. Type 'e' to Exit.
    5. Answer with yes (by hitting 'y') when it asks you to replace settings.
  2. Select the message in question.
  3. Press the [Enter] key to view it.
  4. Press 'h' to display the full header.

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