The
email header holds a lot of valuable information from which the sender of a message, the recipient address and the protocols used in communication can all be recovered from.
This feature enables effective filtering of junk email (spam), as follows: Whenever the LPWA Email Forwarder decrypts an alias email address in order to forward a message to the user's real email address, it includes the alias email address in the CC
email header of the forwarded message.
It examines
email header information, and performs some basic filtering.
When sending encrypted emails and attachments the
email header text and images are now fully customisable in order to satisfy any branding requirements.
The spammers used forged
email headers to make them appear as though they came from users via a Canadian telecommunications company called Telus, in order to get the messages past spam filters.
One of the drawbacks is that it doesn't encrypt
email headers, allowing a hacker to see who an email is addressed to, though its content stays encrypted.
Unlike certain email providers, social networks, and other services, Bulc Club only analyzes
email headers (the sender's email address, originating domain, IP address, mail server location, etc.), and not the email itself.
For example many email security, anti-spam software process
email headers and take every Received: header line and they try to resolve host names found in these headers to check them against bad IP databases.
New tools that analyze
email headers and online calendars have revealed what many managers have long suspected: They're drowning in meetings and email.