It’s several lines long and will show all the touch points your email has had in its journey. Received: As we’ve just mentioned, your computer generates this and it details the journey of the email from its source to its destination (your inbox). The only lines that you can trust are the received lines as these are the ones generated by your computer. However, it’s important to understand that every line within an email header is forgeable so might not be trustworthy.
So what exactly could the email header’s source code tell you about the contents of an email, and why might this be important?īelow, we look at the various components that make up an email header so you can understand what each individual part means and what it can show you about the email. Interpreting the source code in the header of an email
