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How To Read Full Email Headers
Many email messages display forged email addresses in the headers, so that the "From" line appears to be an uchicago.edu address, although it actually originated from an off campus source. This is common with emails that are virus infected or spam. To verify the true originating address, display the full headers of the email.
For information on reading email headers for most popular email applications (except recent Microsoft Outlook):
For Microsoft Outlook 2007:
Last updated: 6/17/09