1) Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP port-25)
2) Post Office Protocol (POP port-110)
E-Mail hacking consists of various techniques as discussed below.
1) EMail Tracing :- Generally, the path taken by an email while traveling from sender to receiver can be explained by following diagram.
Sender's Outbox----->Source Mail Server----->Interim Mail Server----->Destination Mail Server------>Destination Inbox.
The most effective and easiest way to trace an email is to analyze it's email headers. This can be done by just viewing the full header of received email. A typical email header looks something like this:
From Barr Thu Jan 3 05:33:26 2008
X-Apparently-To: [email protected] via 203.104.16.34; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:25:38 +0530
X-YahooFilteredBulk: 189.160.34.89
X-Originating-IP: [189.160.34.89]
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Authentication-Results: mta113.mail.in.yahoo.com from=destatis.de; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
Received: from 189.160.34.89 (HELO dsl-189-160-34-89.prod-infinitum.com.mx) (189.160.34.89) by mta113.mail.in.yahoo.com with SMTP; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:25:38 +0530
Received: from dvapa ([141.203.33.92]) by dsl-189-160-34-89.prod-infinitum.com.mx with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Wed, 2 Jan 2008 18:03:26 -0600
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 18:03:26 -0600
From: "Barr" <[email protected]> Add to Address Book
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: [email protected]
Subject: angel rubberneck
Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="------------030604060204000701040304"
Content-Length: 16433
The above email header gives us the following information about it's origin and path:
a) Sender's email address :- [email protected]
b) Source IP address :- 141.203.33.92
c) Source mail server :- dsl-189-160-34-89.prod-infinitum.com.mx
d) Email client :- Thunderbird 2.0.0.6
There are lots of ready-made tools available on the internet which performs email tracing very effectively and shows exact geographical location for email sender on the world map.
Recommended Tools :
NeoTrace
VisualRoute
E-MailTracker
Download from the above link & enjoy!!!