Kuro5hin has posted a tutorial on how to track down the location of people who email you by looking at the headers in their messages. (Shift-Apple-H displays the headers in Apple Mail).

While it may not always lead to reliable results, the walk-through contains some interesting information about email headers and how to read them, links to reverse DNS search sites and other tips and tricks.

More on email headers:

Reading email headers (www.stopspam.org)
Finding hidden senders in all that e-mail gobbledygook (New York Times)
Figuring out fake E-mail and posts (alt.spam FAQ)

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