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On 05/01/11 23:32, Matty F wrote:
>
> If person B using Outlook Express 6.0 receives an email from person A
> and "Forwards" the email to me, why is the header information (e.g.
> the IP number) from person A not in the header of the email that I
> receive?
> Isn't that the whole point of forwarding and headers, that the IP
> addresses of the chain of emails can be traced?
>
> If it doesn't work that way (god knows why not), how can person B send
> me the header data of person A?
>
If you manage to get the headers, that doesn't mean that that will tell
you anything useful. All the headers apart from the last "Received:"
header can be faked. Basically.

Cheers,

Cliff

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The end excuses any evil - Sophocles

In article <4d25898d$>, ,
Enkidu says...
>
> On 05/01/11 23:32, Matty F wrote:
> >
> > If person B using Outlook Express 6.0 receives an email from person A
> > and "Forwards" the email to me, why is the header information (e.g.
> > the IP number) from person A not in the header of the email that I
> > receive?
> > Isn't that the whole point of forwarding and headers, that the IP
> > addresses of the chain of emails can be traced?
> >
> > If it doesn't work that way (god knows why not), how can person B send
> > me the header data of person A?
> >
> If you manage to get the headers, that doesn't mean that that will tell
> you anything useful. All the headers apart from the last "Received:"
> header can be faked. Basically.

Is that info relevant?

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Duncan.

On Jan 6, 10:21 pm, Enkidu <enkidu....@com.cliffp.com> wrote:
> On 05/01/11 23:32, Matty F wrote:
> >> If person B using Outlook Express 6.0 receives an email from person A
> > and "Forwards" the email to me, why is the header information (e.g.
> > the IP number) from person A not in the header of the email that I
> > receive?
> > Isn't that the whole point of forwarding and headers, that the IP
> > addresses of the chain of emails can be traced?
>
> > If it doesn't work that way (god knows why not), how can person B send
> > me the header data of person A?
>
> If you manage to get the headers, that doesn't mean that that will tell
> you anything useful. All the headers apart from the last "Received:"
> header can be faked. Basically.

Sure, but the person who sent the original email is even more inept at
technical matters than the person who received it and is trying to
forward the headers to me.

On 07/01/11 10:38, Matty F wrote:
> On Jan 6, 10:21 pm, Enkidu<enkidu....@com.cliffp.com> wrote:
>> On 05/01/11 23:32, Matty F wrote:
>>>> If person B using Outlook Express 6.0 receives an email from
>>>> person A
>>> and "Forwards" the email to me, why is the header information
>>> (e.g. the IP number) from person A not in the header of the
>>> email that I receive? Isn't that the whole point of forwarding
>>> and headers, that the IP addresses of the chain of emails can be
>>> traced?
>>
>>> If it doesn't work that way (god knows why not), how can person B
>>> send me the header data of person A?
>>
>> If you manage to get the headers, that doesn't mean that that will
>> tell you anything useful. All the headers apart from the last
>> "Received:" header can be faked. Basically.
>
> Sure, but the person who sent the original email is even more inept
> at technical matters than the person who received it and is trying
> to forward the headers to me.
>
OK, just checking.

Cheers,

Cliff

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The ends justifies the means - Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli.

The end excuses any evil - Sophocles

Enkidu <> wrote in news:4d263764
@news.actrix.co.nz:

>> Sure, but the person who sent the original email is even more inept
>> at technical matters than the person who received it and is trying
>> to forward the headers to me.
>>

Crossloop.com is pretty easy to use to setup between two users.
They even have video explaining how as the user downloads the free tool.
Hard to beat that for easy.


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Ciao, Dave