Deb B: I don't fully understand your problem /meaning However when I have a questionable email I want to trace down I use Sam Spade http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,4709,00.asp You can discover a lot by the use of this program. Hope it helps Bob Deb B <Racefans2@xxxxxxxx> wrote: It is definitely not spam. It is a letter to me from an aol account. I have the headers and I do think it is a letter from a person and need to find out that person. I am not sure what to do with the headers. I did check out his aol name but there is no profile listed. thanks for any help. Deb ----- Original Message ----- From: "~OoO~" To: Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 9:41 AM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: tracing an email > Email headers are very easy to forge. If its truly from an AOL account, = > the info you need should be right in the header. If the questionable = > email is SPAM, and you just want to basically report them, the first = > step would be to report it as SPAM right there in the AOL email = > interface. If the concern is not SPAM, that's a whole different story. = > But, in general, its easy for anyone to send you an email from say = > bob@xxxxxxx and then that email not even exist in AOL's customer base. > > ---Troth Don't assist the spammers! Please delete my name and e-dress before forwarding this e-mail to anyone. Thank you I appreciate your compliance --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Ring in the New Year with Photo Calendars. Add photos, events, holidays, whatever. -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/