Email paper trail

[Leroy Riggs]

Hey Wiz, I am aware that there is a 'paper trail' that goes with every email that identifies, among other things, who sent it, date, etc.

My question is, how deep does this trail go? If it is forwarded 20 times by a string of users, is all 20 forwarding identities in this 'trail' or is it just the last that is identified?

Next question: How does one access this information?
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[Bill McCloskey]

the header of the email should contain all that info. How you access it depends on your email browser. to see it in outlook, you right click on the message and choose "message options"

[Leroy Riggs]

Thanks

[Wiz Feinberg]

Hey Wiz, I am aware that there is a 'paper trail' that goes with every email that identifies, among other things, who sent it, date, etc.

My question is, how deep does this trail go? If it is forwarded 20 times by a string of users, is all 20 forwarding identities in this 'trail' or is it just the last that is identified?

Next question: How does one access this information?
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All email contains a list of the mail servers used to send it from your desktop to your recipients. If you forward an email to a friend, the original headers are replaced with your headers, making it traceable to you.

If you forward any email to a friend, who re-forwards it to his friend, your email address may be displayed in plain text in the quoted message. If you or one of the other recipients decides to forward it to a group of people, using the C.C. option, every email address of the recipients and senders will be visible in the message body.

Not only does this reveal everybody's email address to every recipient, it also makes them all available to email harvester Bots. If just one recipient on a C.C. list is infected with such a Bot, all of the listed accounts will be sent home and added to a Spam database. Every recipient will be spammed by every spammer who buys into that database. Some spammers sell CDs full of illegally harvested email addresses.

If you must send to multiple recipients, either type each one into the To field, separated by semicolons, or use the B.C.C. function instead.

[Leroy Riggs]

Thank you.