Tuesday 12 December 2006

Module Two - Email tasks 1

1. What information about a user's email, the origin of a message, and the path it took, can you glean from an email message?

A1. The most basic information available (I use Mozilla Thunderbird) will be:

  • To: The recipient
    • username@domain
  • CC: Any cc recipients
    • username@domain
  • From: The sender
    • username@domain
  • Subject: The subject line choosen by the sender
  • Date: The date created/sent
  • Attachments: any attachments if sent
see image below
For more detailed information I would choose View > Headers > All
as below

the following information was available after choosing this setting:



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