Email - Received Header (Email path / Email Route)
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Email route (or routing) is the route that a email message has taken from server to server before landing in a mailbox.
Received is a message header which indicates when and how a server handled the message.
The show the path that a message takes from the message sender to the final recipient.
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The route is defined via the Received header that is happened by every server when it receives an message. The list of all Received header forms a route.
They are read in reverse order:
- the first one is the one that delivered the message to its final destination
- The last one is the sender.
Received: by 172.16.84.104 with SMTP id ax2nko4a19iuvwy9mhdlr7d5wxu6sln7jocea;
Thu, 4 Feb 2021 18:00:11 GMT
You can get it formatted with the Message header toolbox.