Email Header Analysis

Definitions

1. The examination of routing metadata, authentication results, timestamps, sender fields, and relay paths in an email header to understand origin and detect spoofing or abuse. It is a basic but powerful skill in phishing triage and mail forensics.

   In plain English: Inspecting email metadata to see where a message really came from and how it was handled.

   Example: "Email header analysis showed the message failed SPF and actually originated from an unrelated host in another country."

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