Tracing back an email graphically

Did you ever trace an email?? Or you must have been suspicious about the sender but may not have traced it to the originator. In this article I will demonstrate online investigation skills...This is commonly used also by the computer forensic guys. However i will only explain very basic steps of tracing back an email. This article assumes the following (1) That the email has not been sent using a open proxy servers which are hosted world wide unofficially to cover up the traces of the originator (2) Your own e-mail server is accidentally or intentionally in an open relay mode which does not authenticate the senders details These two methods generally cover up the senders traced ip address and its very difficult to trace back unless the admins of those proxy servers are logging all the NATTED ips in their servers. This is a very unusal situation as it is very difficult to find these bad guys operating their servers in countries where the IT Acts/Law is not yet mature. There are many ways to trace back an email by analyzing its headers. There is already an online tool "Email Tracker Pro" .Other than this there are many other useful tools for tracking but iam not covering in the scope. Step wise explanantion You should know about the Email headers present in your email which is generally hidden. I will not explain you in detail as there is already an online tutorial to teach you about the email headers of the various mail applications like Yahoo,Hotmail,Gmail,Outlook etc. After locating you email headers, paste it into the box provided and click start 3. It takes a minute for the java applet to process the mail headers and pin point you with the information about the network from which the mail originated. You can contact this network administrator with your abuse complaint as he is legally responsible for such issues. 4. There is another interesting video which i have found at metacafe site.Please Click Here