First, ignore the advice of reading the RFC's and headers. If an individual signed up for a web email service such as Hotmail or Yahoo! or brain.com.pk under false pretenses then you will have to contact the provider to see if they can help you track down the abuser. All the headers are going to tell you is that the email message came from an account on www.brain.com.pk which is pretty useless since you already know that. They should at least be able to disable the account for you and may have some information related to what computer was used to access that account.
If the user had instead used the common SMTP hack to forge a From address, then the RFC's and headers would come into play. But depending on how they did the hack, you still would probably not be able to determine much if they did anything to help cover their tracks. As you have discovered, in the world of SMTP and free email services, it is extremely easy to forge the From address of an email and it is difficult, if not impossible to track this down if the person doing it has any amount of a brain what-so-ever. Tell your executives to deal because it is the nature of SMTP and the Internet. > Dear List, > > Today, our senior executive's received Illegal/unsolicited email with = > the name of one of our senior executive. His name was used on free web = > based email service (www.brain.com.pk). My question is how can I trace = > the culprit. > > Help in this regard is really appreciated. > > Thanks & Regards. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
