Have completed the Email Basics tutorial and following are responses to the questions posed as part of module 2.2 tasks for Email.
1. What information about a user's email, the origin of a message, and the path it took, can you glean from an email message?
To answer this question I have plucked a random email from my inbox to analyse. From this email I can gather that the email was sent from a mail server hosting the domain hbf.com.au. It appears to be an original email (i.e not a reply or a forward) as there is not indication of this in the subject or body of the email.
As I am using Outlook Express, if I go to File then select properties I can see the time that the email was sent(based on the time on his mail server) and the time it was received by my mail server(based on the time on my mail server).
By selecting File then Properties and going to the details tab I can see more information on the path that this email took by viewing the Internet Headers.
The following is a copy of the Internet Headers for the above mail message. It tells me the message was sent via the mail server mail.hbf.com.au and received by sv3.per.eftel.com.au(my ISP). Before this email was sent by mail.hbf.com.au it also passed through another server Aurilla.corp.hbf.com.au and was passed through the SurfControl E-mail Filter.
X-McAfeeVS-TimeoutProtection: 0
Return-Path:
Received: from hbf.com.au (mail.hbf.com.au [203.153.232.59])
by sv3.per.eftel.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39D9466C3D5
for
Received: from Aurilla.corp.hbf.com.au [192.0.8.44] by mail.hbf.com.au - SurfControl E-mail Filter (5.5.0); Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:55:41 +0900
Subject: D-Link stuff
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 7.0 August 18, 2005
Message-ID:
From:
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:55:40 +0900
X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on HBFMail1/HBF(Release 6.5.4FP1|June 19, 2005) at 09/02/2007
11:55:42 AM,
Serialize complete at 09/02/2007 11:55:42 AM
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=_alternative 00101556C825727D_="
To:
X-SEF-7853D99-ADF1-478E-8894-213D316B8FFA: 1
X-SEF-Processed: 5_5_0_191__2007_02_09_11_55_43
X-MSK: FRND
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