Trilight Zone

[digital8]

All e-mail contains headers, and most tracing of e-mail begins by looking at this message-header information. A message header is text at the top of an e-mail that travels through the Internet. It contains the source of an e-mail in the "From" line, while in the "Received" lines, the header lists every point the e-mail passed through on its journey, along with the date and time. The message header provides a trail of every machine an e-mail has passed through.
Since this "post stamp" is rather ugly and useless for correspondents, the email programs normally hide it. But for snoops it's a valuable source of information. For example it contains one or more IP addresses that can be traced to you, your Internet service provider or organization So you should be ready that any mail admin can glance at your mail and learn your country, city, IPS, maybe your telephone number and so on. Besides tracing an IP address is essential for most hack attack.