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How can I tell whether an email is legitimate?

It’s an unfortunate fact that when using email you will sooner or later receive an email pretending to be legitimate, trying to make you reveal information or click a malicious link. This is commonly called “phishing” and may attempt to lead you to a website that looks like for instance your bank, and then convince […] Read more

Filed Under: How-tos     Tags: headers, phishing, Spam

Legitimate message headers example

From demo@runbox.com Tue Jan 27 02:32:44 2015 Return-path: <demo@runbox.com> Received: from [10.9.9.207] (helo=mailfront03.runbox.com) by takara.runbox.com with esmtp  (Exim 4.69) id 1YFv1I-0002OP-4Z for demo@runbox.com; Tue, 27 Jan 2015 02:32:44 +0100 Received: from angua.runbox.com ([10.9.9.117] helo=bars.runbox.com) by mailfront03.runbox.com with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.76) id 1YFv1M-0006HI-2s for demo@runbox.com; Tue, 27 Jan 2015 02:32:48 +0100 Received: from [10.9.9.241] (helo=rmm6prod02.runbox.com) […] Read more

Filed Under: Webmail     Tags: headers, Spam

Message Headers

What are message headers? Message headers are usually mostly hidden when you read email messages. You normally get shown certain parts of the headers such as From, To, CC, Date/Time and Subject, but there is a whole lot more and it can be very helpful in troubleshooting problems with messages. The image above shows how […] Read more

Filed Under: Email Clients     Tags: headers
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