Module 2: Email Question 1

Q1 What information about a user's email, the origin of a message, and the path it took, can you glean from an email message?

From an user's email account you can find out their user name (the section before the @) and the domain name (listed after the @), which is the particular set of computers it uses to enable mail functions, connecting it to the Internet.

Information that can be gleaned about the paths taken, from a received email are:

where the email originated (user's name)

who the user's domain provider is (domain name); followed by

your domain provider (from your domain name); and lastly

to you (your user name)

You cannot generally ascertain any of the computer number's that were found in the Module 1 Tasks.

This information is generally hidden from view in a regular email.