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Email header analyzer tool

I'm looking for an easy email header analyzer tool for Windows. (To be used in computer forensic case)

We prefer open source but we can also buy a commercial software.

Could you tell me which is your favorite tool for this purpose?

Thanks in advance

Mohammed Khawaja

Mostly they are free and web based. You could try mxtoolbox.com and gaijin.at.

Luis N

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We prefer an advanced solution installed in our PC

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John

You have another question open about tracing a domain that cannot be traced (check in that question).

May I suggest you review a few headers from spammers manually. You will see that the headers have been obfuscated and have little to no meaningful information.

Any energy you might spend on spam will be rewarded 10 fold in getting good anti-spam software. That is how I approach spam and 99.99% of it doesn't even reach the spam filters.

Greylisting is great way to turf email from untraceable domains.

SirtenKen

The MS Script center has a powershell script you can use to parse headers:
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/8c15881d-c10f-4309-9900-4ff0653987a5

These blog entries discuss the script:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2011/08/18/use-powershell-to-parse-email-message-headers-part-1.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2011/08/19/analyze-email-headers-with-powershell-part-2.aspx

Ken