On 10/29/2015 11:57 PM, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
On Thu 29 Oct 2015 18:56:01 NZDT +1300, Peter Simmonds wrote:
Was only using common sense on that one, and simply forwarding the
spam (back) to the list.
Never draw any conclusions (other than whether it's spam) without a look
at the headers.
What email client ought I be using to actually get the useful
information, such as ip addresses etc?
Thunderbird has an option to display emails as raw, or whatever it's
called, like pressing "v". I forget the details but it was very easy to
show headers.
Otherwise I can look over the
various thunderbird files using a hex editor
Text(!) editor, that's always a good one for debugging. The thunderbird
email format is concatenating emails itno one file, without mbox style
"From " headers and without separators. Easy to access if you have a
string to search for in the headers. Searching bodies will fail if the
body is base64 encoded, and may fail (end of line) if it's MIME encoded.
You could also save the email from thunderbird in mbox format (they call
it "email" format - haha), then use a reliable workhorse like mutt
(instead of that clicky stuff that may show you its interpretation at
any time) to view the actual email text. In mutt, simply press "e".
HTH,
Volker
Thunderbird will only have any say in your mail storage format if you're
still using POP3. In this multi-device age, this is less than optimal.
To see all message headers, from the menu select view->headers->all.
Steve
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