Saturday, August 8, 2009

Is there any way to find the origin of an email sent with a server mailer to a Yahoo account?

I'm getting these spams and the sender is putting random email addresses in the from header. I was wondering if there was some way to decode an email to find out the origin website they came from.

Is there any way to find the origin of an email sent with a server mailer to a Yahoo account?
If you actually mean "Origin website", then the answer is no, you cannot find out what website sold/rented your e-mail address. But you can see where the e-mail itself originated. At the bottom right of the e-mail message in the Yahoo! e-mail website, there is a link for "Full headers". If you look at that, you can see some "Received-from" lines. You want to look at the highest "Received-from" line that is not "from" a Yahoo! address.


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