It's called SPAM, and one usually ignores it :) First, the 'Received:' headers are always ordered most-recent-first, so you read those bottom to top. The mail originated at 131.95.135.162, was sent through the smtp server at ocean.otr.usm.edu which forwarded it to trinity.infinethosting.com, which I assume is your mail server.
'Date:' is pretty obvious, 'Message-id' is an internal id assigned to the message by the smtp server - administrators can use this to trace it in the logs. 'From:' provides you with the (probably fake) mail address that was passed to the smtp server as originator of the mail. You can undoubtedly guess what 'To:' and 'Subject:' are :) 'MIME-Version:' and 'Content-Type' have to do with how the contents of the mail is structured. 'Return-Path:' I'm not entirely certain, but I believe this is where server messages (such as non-delivery notices) should go. Presumably fake as well, although spammers usually don't bother to put a different one. Any attribute starting with 'X-', in this case only 'X-Originalarrivaltime:' is not part of the standard set of headers, this one looks like being set by your mail application. I've never heard of a 'FILETIME' - attribute, so I'm guessing you're using mickeysoft :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Someone's been sending me these HTML type email with the IFRAME type tags. >Here is one of the headers from the email. It seems that it is coming from >some person with an account at USM.EDU named J.MARSHAK (all of the emails >have the same type of heading). Can someone explained some, if not all of >these heading information. (I purposely put [EMAIL PROTECTED] to hide my >personal information.) > >Thank you in advance. > >-Roberto > >----------------------------------------------------- > >Received: from ocean.otr.usm.edu ([131.95.82.42]) by >trinity.infinethosting.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.4905); > Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:44:41 -0500 >Received: from Vcc ([131.95.135.162]) > by ocean.otr.usm.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g5OIgo231905 > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:42:55 -0500 >Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:42:55 -0500 >Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: tommyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: A special nice game >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary=O99lPXpKQzJDT73H4 >Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Jun 2002 18:44:41.0206 (UTC) >FILETIME=[3333E160:01C21BAF] >-------------------------------------------------------- > >
