Reading Email Headers
How to read the "ship's manifest" to find out what went wrong. This section is a practical guide to reading raw email headers, focusing on the path and to diagnose delivery failures.
Questions about Reading Email Headers
What is an email header?
What is the difference between envelope and header?
Why would I need to look at email headers?
How do I view full email headers in different clients (Gmail, Outlook, etc.)?
How to read and interpret raw headers?
What key information can I find in email headers (e.g., Received, Authentication-Results, Message-ID)?
What do “Received” headers mean?
What is a “Return-Path”?
What is “X-Mailer” or “User-Agent”?
What are custom X-headers and why use them?
How can headers help troubleshoot deliverability problems?
What tools can help analyze email headers?
What is ARC-Seal, ARC-Message-Signature, and ARC-Authentication-Results?
What is “Authentication-Results” and how to read it?
What is the difference between SPF and DKIM results in headers?
How to detect spoofing from headers?
What is “Received-SPF”?
What are “List-Unsubscribe” headers?
What is “Feedback-ID”?