Mail Security - Email Headers

The articles referenced on this page are quite old but still pretty definitive on interpreting and analysing mail headers. These are reproduced unchanged with kind permission from Bill Mattocks (who wrote the originals) and Marek Jedlinski (who converted and reformatted them in HTML from the usenet posts)

1. Spam Tracking 101 - Mail Headers
2. Spam Tracking 102 - Using Dejavu
3. Spam Tracking 103 - Using WHOIS
4. Spam Tracking 104 - A worked example

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