E-mail tracing

Hi,

Wondering if anyone can shed some light on this question. Keep in mind, I'm not a computer whiz.

I have an e-mail - now printed out also - that if possible, would like to trace back to it's origin. Is this possible? It isn't for me, but for someone I know. It is a matter of a legal issue at this point. I'm trying to help them out...

Any help appreciated.

Thanks,

clf

"just me" wrote in message news:At9Oe.30610$ snipped-for-privacy@newsread1.mlpsca1.us.to.verio.net...

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You need to analyse the header - this is part of the message that isn't usually displayed. How you display it depends on the program used. Try right clicking on the message and selecting properties. Note that you need to do this on the computer that got the original - not the message forwarded to you if that's what happened.

A typical header looks like this (see below). It shows some of the computers the email travelled through. If the sender knows what they are doing they can make a message very hard to trace....

Return-Path: Delivered-To: snipped-for-privacy@telenet.be Received: (qmail 4971 invoked from network); 21 Aug 2005 02:07:57 -0000 Received: from elektra.telenet-ops.be ([195.130.136.19]) (envelope-sender ) by ate.telenet-ops.be (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 21 Aug 2005 02:07:57 -0000 Received: from limos.telenet-ops.be (limos.telenet-ops.be [195.130.136.25]) by elektra.telenet-ops.be (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j7L27upC010541 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 04:07:56 +0200 Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by limos.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E42937E4C for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 04:07:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ladon.telenet-ops.be (ladon.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.50]) by limos.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 587AE37E47 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 04:07:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: from apate.telenet-ops.be (apate.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.57]) by ladon.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5319614F587 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 04:07:56 +0200 (MEST) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by apate.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E3B138058 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 04:07:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: from PC1 (dD5764706.access.telenet.be [213.118.71.6]) by apate.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 355423802E for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 04:07:56 +0200 (CEST) thread-index: AcWl9RszdrEf2cdJw/Q42wlMIswkss85Yw== Thread-Topic: Just another boring email From: Sender: To: Subject: High Priority Notification (Notice) From Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 04:07:39 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft CDO for Exchange 2000 Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message Importance: normal Priority: normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441

"I" am the one who pulled the e-mail down from the parties e-mail, being they had no computer access at this point in time - so they could "check" their e-mail.

Thanks!