> Can a trace (just as in traceroute) be placed on an email address as
> it goes about the Internet?
Email is traced by the SMTP servers. Every email message (unless edited by
a particular server) shows all SMTP servers it passed through in the
headers (in descending order).
The headers show something like: "Received: from ..." each time they pass
through an SMTP server because the server prepends info about itself to
the message. Some messages get routed through a half dozen servers or so
before reaching their final destination.
It just shows SMTP servers and not every machine it went through... other
than that.. it's just data which can be traced with traceroute (to origin
from destination, you know how to use it I'm sure)
:)
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