Basically Lazy - Email Header Analysis

From: Andy Cuff [talisker] (offthecuff_at_lineone.net)
Date: 10/25/03

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Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 11:43:23 +0100

    Hi
    Whilst drowning my sorrows in the UK rain following our resounding defeat in
    the Eurovision song contest (Politics in Europe surely not !!) I have
    turned my attention to email headers.

    Whilst I'm quietly confident about manually analysing email headers, I'm
    looking for tools or web resources that will automate some of the process.
    There are plenty of anti-spam resources such as http://combat.uxn.com/ and
    http://www.spamhaus.org/ to identify spammers and there is the infamous Sam
    Spade for testing Open Mail Relay Agents. There are a plethora of how-to's
    and FAQ's about analysing headers manually. But I haven't found many
    resources that analyse the headers in sufficient accurate detail.

    Personally I would rather run a tool on my own system than put my headers
    through a 3rd party website but there are a few sites that seem to do it
    fairly well such as http://www.3dmail.com/spam/ which whilst spam focussed
    seems fairly comprehensive, though sadly a beta which hasn't been updated in
    a year.

    Any recommendations websites or tools would be greatly appreciated, if there
    is a sufficient response I will collate the information onto a new page for
    the website below and post a summary to this list

    cheers, and for the Brits have a good Bank Holiday Weekend I hope the
    weather is better where you are!

    take care
    -andy
    Taliskers Network Security Tools
    http://www.networkintrusion.co.uk

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