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SMTP Headers


To View SMTP Message Headers

MS Outlook 2000: Select the message, then right click for a menu, and select options. The SMTP headers will be viewable in a box labeled "Internet Headers".

For Eudora: double click on the message to open it in its own window, and then click on "show all headers" button at the top of the window.

MS Outlook Express: Select the message, then right click for a menu, and select properties, and select the details tab. The SMTP headers will be viewable in a box labeled "Internet Headers for this Message".

Sample SpamAssassin SMTP Message headers

The text below includes a sample taken from a spam message filtered with SpamAssassin. The X-Spam-Level header in bold below can be used to filter the message. There is plenty of additional interesting information about how SpamAssassin rated the message in the other X-Spam headers. Only the X-Spam headers are added by SpamAssassin.

X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 118
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="3DE_84._1A84_.3C4BFE_A.B"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Spam-Flag: YES
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on net4.rd1.net
X-Spam-Report:
* 4.4 DATE_SPAMWARE_Y2K Date header uses unusual Y2K formatting
* 1.1 FROM_NUM_AT_WEBMAIL From address is webmail, but starts with a number
* 0.1 HTML_FONTCOLOR_RED BODY: HTML font color is red
* 0.1 HTML_60_70 BODY: Message is 60% to 70% HTML
* 0.4 HTML_FONT_INVISIBLE BODY: HTML font color is same as background
* 0.1 MIME_HTML_ONLY BODY: Message only has text/html MIME parts
* 0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message
* 1.5 HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_04 BODY: HTML: images with 200-400 bytes of words
* 0.5 HTML_TITLE_EMPTY BODY: HTML title contains no text
* 0.7 MIME_HTML_NO_CHARSET RAW: Message text in HTML without charset
* 4.3 OBFUSCATING_COMMENT HTML comments which obfuscate text
* 1.2 MISSING_MIMEOLE Message has X-MSMail-Priority, but no X-MimeOLE
* 0.0 CLICK_BELOW Asks you to click below
* 1.8 FORGED_AOL_HTML AOL can't send HTML message only
* 1.1 MIME_HTML_ONLY_MULTI Multipart message only has text/html MIME parts
* 0.1 MISSING_OUTLOOK_NAME Message looks like Outlook, but isn't
X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=17.5 required=5.0 tests=CLICK_BELOW,
DATE_SPAMWARE_Y2K,FORGED_AOL_HTML,FROM_NUM_AT_WEBMAIL,HTML_60_70,
HTML_FONTCOLOR_RED,HTML_FONT_INVISIBLE,HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_04,
HTML_MESSAGE,HTML_TITLE_EMPTY,MIME_HTML_NO_CHARSET,MIME_HTML_ONLY,
MIME_HTML_ONLY_MULTI,MISSING_MIMEOLE,MISSING_OUTLOOK_NAME,
OBFUSCATING_COMMENT autolearn=spam version=2.63
X-Spam-Level: *****************
X-UIDL: 4$1!!X7<!!nCJ!!G;k"!

Content-Type: text/html;


 


Durkee Consulting, Inc.
7367 Evergreen St. PO Box 404
Lima, NY 14485
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585-624-9551
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