Yandex Email Header Analysis

The Email Header portion of an email message is the part, which contains the complete information about the message such as sender's information, sent date & time, receiver's information, subject etc. The message header mainly contains the code and data, which helps users to detect the delivered email. There are various web-based email applications available in the online market. Out of which, one such email application is Yandex webmail. It is a cloud-based email application, which is used for sending or receiving email messages. Sometimes, the user of Yandex webmail wants to see the complete detail of a particular email message so at that time they require Yandex mail header. Therefore, in this post, we are going to discuss how one can open or view the Yandex email header and we will describe each attribute of message headers.

How To View Yandex Email Header

Follow the below-mentioned steps to open the message header portion of any email message present in Yandex Webmail account:

• Log In to Yandex webmail account on your system

• Double-click on the particular message whose header portion you want to see
• Now, click on the More and then select Message headers by clicking on it

• After that, a full message header an email will display on your screen

Description Of Each Attribute Of Yandex Email Header

In this portion, we are going to describe each attribute of a message header portion of any message present on Yandex webmail account:

Received: The received field of email header contains the information of last SMTP server visited by email message:

• The IP address of the sender's server
• The SMTP id of the visited server
• The date and time at which email message was received by the server

DKIM Signature: The DKIM stands for DomainKeys Identified Mail. This signature header represents the digital signature embedded in the email message. It is another authentication key maintained by the email server to share information in a secure form. It contains the digitally signed signature in a non-readable format. However, various attributes within this header field display:

• v= version of used application
• a= the algorithms, which are used to sign email message
• c=list of canonicalization algorithms
• d= domain for which email message is signed
• h=signed header fields
• bh=body hash

X-Google-DKIM Signature: To improve authentication of signature, Google adds X-Google-DKIM signature attribute in the email header. It contains various parameters, which are specified as:

• v=version used for signature
• a=the signature algorithms used by Google
• c= used canonicalization algorithm
• d=signing domain name
• h=list of signed header fields
• bh=body hash

MIME Version: This field of email header specifies the version of the MIME protocol, which was used by the sender for sending email messages.

From: This field of email header portion shows the complete email ID of the sender who sent that particular message on Yandex webmail. It contains the sender's email address.

Date: This attribute in header portion indicates the date and time at which email message was received at the Yandex Webmail account.

Message ID: This field stores unique id for source email message, which is very helpful to identify each message uniquely.

Subject: This attribute of header gives the idea to the recipient that what message actually contains. It is the complete summary of the content of that email message.

To: This field of message header contains the email ID of a recipient who has received the message. It displays the receiver's email address.

Content-Type: This attribute identifies the way in which complete email message will be visible in the email application.

Return-Path: This field of the header contains the email address of the sender.

Conclusion

When a forensic investigator wants to collect evidence from the suspect Yandex webmail account so at that time the need of Yandex email header analysis occurs. Therefore, in this post, we have done the complete analysis of Yandex email header. Explore Forensic Email Search Software features.