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Email Header Analyzer

Analyze your email to uncover potential deliverability and authentication problems.

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Detect and Troubleshoot Email Problems with EasyDMARC

Gain full visibility into your email's journey with EasyDMARC’s email header analyzer. Our advanced header analyzer provides a detailed email analysis, helping you uncover authentication issues and quickly identify potential delivery problems.

With a single scan, you can:

Our DMARC header analyzer and email tracer makes it easier than ever to investigate suspicious emails, perform email trace actions, validate email authentication, and resolve deliverability issues.

Protect your domain from spoofing and phishing attacks. EasyDMARC’s powerful yet easy-to-use email header analyzer helps you secure your business and accelerate DMARC implementation with confidence.

Email Investigation

What is an Email Header Analyzer?

An email message header analyzer is a tool that uncovers the technical details hidden in your email headers. Every email carries information about its sender, the servers it passed through, and whether it met authentication checks like SPF, DKIM, and DMARC. By combining header analysis with a Domain Scanner, you can also validate DNS records, spot misconfigurations, and detect risks like spoofing or phishing attempts. This makes it easier to verify senders, secure your domain, and troubleshoot deliverability issues.

What is an Email Header Analyzer

What is Email Header Analysis?

An email header analysis is the process of examining the technical metadata in an email header to understand how the email was sent, where it came from, and whether it can be trusted. Emails consist of a header and the body. The former contains the metadata for the email, while the latter contains the email's contents.

Email message header analysis is an important technique for understanding the technical details of email communication and ensuring email security and authenticity. Email header analysis is particularly important for implementing email authentication protocols such as SPF, DKIM, and DMARC because an email header can reveal a lot of information about whether the email passed or failed authentication checks.

An email header includes, for example:

  • Sender's and recipient's email addresses
  • The date and time the email was sent
  • The email servers involved in the delivery process
  • The subject line of the message

Go to your Google Mail account and open an email. Find “More” (3 vertical dots), and choose “Show original.”

Go to your Outlook email account and open an email. Find “More actions” (3 horizontal dots), and choose “View message source.”

Go to your Yahoo Mail account and open an email. Find “More actions” (3 horizontal dots), and choose “View raw message.”

Email header analysis looks at the technical details in an email header such as the sender IP, server hops, and authentication results to identify misconfigurations or suspicious activity.

Email investigation takes a broader view. It uses header analysis as a starting point but also examines message content, compliance indicators, and deliverability factors to uncover phishing, fraud, or recurring issues.

EasyDMARC’s tool combines both approaches, providing quick header checks along with a deeper investigation for complete visibility into email security and performance.

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