Get Headers – Hotmail Email Headers

Email Headers Overview: Applies to Hotmail and all others.

Emails are made up of two parts, the message header and the message body. The message body contains the content of the message while the message header contains the control information which is commonly made up of several fields. If you get header information from an email, you will commonly see the following fields. First, contained in the email header is the ‘From:’ field which displays the senders email address and possibly their name as well. Then it is the ‘To:’ field which contains the email address(es) and name(s) of the recipient(s). Getting the email headers to display will also reward you with the ‘Subject:’, ‘Date’, ‘Message-ID’, ‘Bcc:’, ‘Cc:’, ‘Content-Type:’, ‘In-Reply-To: (Message-ID)’, ‘Reply-To:’, and ‘Sender:’. If you are able to get header information from your emails you can discover more information in regard to who (or what) emailed you the message. Getting header information is useful to discover spam prior to replying to it.

Why get header information for Hotmail Emails

This is a reasonable question. After all, in today’s day in age, we have tons of features that automatically detect spam and deal with it accordingly. However, there are some circumstances in which getting this information is still useful. So, why get header information for Hotmail emails? While the average Joe may be able to easily disregard or identify suspected spam, that is not always as easy for others. I run a small Web Design business for which I advertise on Craigslist. If you are not familiar with Craigslist, listings are free. Although this is nice, it also makes it a haven for spammers to collect targeted email addresses. If I post an ad for Web Design and use my email address rather then the email obfuscation service offered by Craigslist, my email address will be collected by bots searching for Web Design associated email addresses and used for spam. If I use the email obfuscation service, it is more difficult for spammers to get my email address. The have to send an email to me that would entice a reply. Then, when I reply to the original email, my email address will be visible to them and added to the spam list. The problem here is that I am obligated to reply to customers (or possible customers) in order to get work. If I falsely identify an email as spam, I may be losing business.

One technique I use to identify this type of spam is the lack of effort on the part of the spammer. I’ve found that most spam emails are short, two-four line messages which are very bland and leave out pertinent information. Also, for some reason, the senders name is not capitalized in most cases.

Have you ever had an email come in with the ‘To:’ field being blank? If you get header information from the email you will be able to retrieve this information.

How to get header information for Hotmail Emails

To see the headers in Windows Live Hotmail:

- Right-click the message in the message list, and then click ‘View message source’.

Easy, wasn’t it?

Firefox 3.5 Tips and Tricks: Features

Firefox 3.5 Loads Pages Faster

Firefox 3.5 is faster than Firefox 3; 2 times faster in fact. Also, Firefox v3.5 is about 10 times faster than Firefox v2. This is due in large part to the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine that is being utilized by Firefox 3.5.

An excerpt from the Mozilla Wiki regarding TraceMonkey:

About TraceMonkey
TraceMonkey adds native code compilation to Mozilla’s JavaScript engine (known as “SpiderMonkey”). It is based on a technique developed at UC Irvine called “trace trees”, and building on code and ideas shared with the Tamarin Tracing project. The net result is a massive speed increase both in the browser chrome and Web page content.
–Mozilla Wiki

TraceMonkey will help speed up many aspects of browsing the web. Videos, Images, Text… these should all load more quickly under Firefox v3.5.

Firefox 3.5 Improves Color

Firefox 3.5 makes use of improved color profiles. These will serve to help display images (and videos) with colors that are more vibrant. One limitation, however, is your monitor. If you have a monitor that does not display color well (old, cheap) you may not notice a difference.

Example?

Firefox v3.5 Manages Memory More Effectively

Firefox v3.5 also has a smaller memory footprint. However, this does not help much if the program itself sucks at managing that memory. Luckily, with version 3.5, the memory management has been improved. Past versions of Firefox, including v2 & v3, have suffered from numerous memory leaks. To combat this, a feature called the ‘XPCOM cycle collector’ works to free memory that the program no longer needs to hold.

An excerpt from the Mozilla Developer Center regarding the XPCOM cycle collector:

What the cycle collector does
The cycle collector spends most of its time accumulating (and forgetting about) pointers to XPCOM objects that might be involved in garbage cycles. This is the idle stage of the collector’s operation, in which special variants of nsAutoRefCnt register and unregister themselves very rapidly with the collector, as they pass through a “suspicious” refcount event (from N+1 to N, for nonzero N).
Periodically the collector wakes up and examines any suspicious pointers that have been sitting in its buffer for a while. This is the scanning stage of the collector’s operation. In this stage the collector repeatedly asks each candidate for a singleton cycle-collection helper class, and if that helper exists, the collector asks the helper to describe the candidate’s (owned) children. This way the collector builds a picture of the ownership subgraph reachable from suspicious objects.
If the collector finds a group of objects that all refer back to one another, and establishes that the objects’ reference counts are all accounted for by internal pointers within the group, it considers that group cyclical garbage, which it then attempts to free. This is the unlinking stage of the collectors operation. In this stage the collector walks through the garbage objects it has found, again consulting with their helper objects, asking the helper objects to “unlink” each object from its immediate children.
Note that the collector also knows how to walk through the JS heap, and can locate ownership cycles that pass in and out of it.

Other features of Firefox 3.5

• Over 6,000 Firefox Add-ons
• Internal Add-ons manager
• One click bookmarking.
• Tag sites for search
• No additional plug-ins needed to display Video and Audio content
• Save Videos to desktop as can be done with images
• Location aware browsing
• Private Browsing
• Forget this site feature

Facebook typo:
Ut-oh. You made a boo-boo. If you’re like me, you’re not perfect. You’ve likely gotten a few speeding tickets, forgotten (yeah right) to study for an exam, and you’ve been to prison. The last one was to get your attention (I have not been to prison). Along with this list of mistakes is the ever present missed keystroke or forgotten space that seems to crop up at the most inopportune time. For example, I recently became aware of a business document that was sent off simply missing the word ‘not.’ While this word may be only three letters, when it appears in the sentence, “We do NOT discriminate,” the impact of the missing word can be fully felt, and quite embarrassing. Likewise, a typo in a facebook status update can be just a devastating. Maybe the problem wasn’t your fault. I’ve known a few people who have had their facebook accounts hacked or hijacked, with posts galore full of bad words and discussion of topics unbecoming of that person. Or, perhaps you are just waking up half hung over from a night of drinking to realize you have posted some quite reveling information that, now that you are sober, you may no longer wish to be made public.

No matter the cause, we’ve all most likely made a few mistakes typing in the “What’s on your mind?” box on facebook and hitting the share button without realizing it. And after you do, you quickly realize there are only two options at the bottom of the post, ‘Comment’ and ‘Like.’ Well, you obviously don’t like it, otherwise you wouldn’t be looking to delete it. And Commenting on a post you have made to say you messed is tacky. Not only are you pointing out your typo and drawing attention to it, you’re also pointing out that you have NO IDEA how to take care of it.

That’s where I come in, SUPER RICK!

Fix that facebook typo, yo.
Did you know, there is a way to delete posts that you have made? No? Well then, congratulations on your use of google my friend, you’ve come to the right place. That’s right, no more having to live with posts like, “I hate being a man, maybe I should go ahead with that operation after all.” It’s easy, just follow these steps.

While logged in with the offending post or status update blaring in your face:

Done, and done. The offending post hath been stricken from the record, and calm has once again returned to your facebook page.