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Analyze email headers for authentication and routing information. Detect security issues, trace email paths, and verify sender authenticity.
In Gmail: Open email → Three dots menu → Show original → Copy headers
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Email headers contain crucial information about an email's journey from sender to recipient, including authentication results, routing paths, and security indicators that help identify legitimate emails and detect potential threats.
Authentication results
SPF, DKIM, and DMARC verification status from receiving servers.
Routing information
Complete path showing each server the email passed through.
Security indicators
TLS encryption status and potential security warnings.
Detect spoofing
Identify authentication failures that indicate potential email spoofing.
Troubleshoot delivery
Find delays or issues in email routing and delivery paths.
Verify authenticity
Confirm legitimate senders through proper authentication.
Email headers contain technical details about an email's journey, including sender and recipient information, timestamps, authentication results (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), and the path taken through various mail servers.
The process varies by email client. In Gmail, open the email, click the three dots, and select 'Show original'. In Outlook, open the email, go to File > Properties. In Apple Mail, press Command+Shift+H.
Analyzing headers helps troubleshoot delivery delays, verify if an email is legitimate or spoofed, identify the source of spam, and check if your own emails are passing authentication checks.
Yes, we process the headers locally or securely on our servers to provide the analysis. We do not store the content of your email headers after the analysis is complete.
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