Track Sent Emails

Emailing has become very common.While sending important mails we need to be notified whether the person on the receiving end has read the email.Luckily, the tools have been developed.

The Classic
Some email programs(e.g. squirrelmail) use the classical method which requests the user using an alert to send receipt of email.But the receiver always has the upper end. He/She may disable sending the receipt rendering the feature useless.

Disposable Email addresses

Disposable email addresses are email address which expire whenever you want.This basically is done to keep the spam away.As you might know that many service providers are providing email alias but most of them can be easily be filtered and hence your email id may be accessible.On the other,disposable email addresses provide you with an entirely different email address and hence saving you from spam.

Some of the service providers are:

• 33mail.com: Its a free service and provides unlimited disposable addresses,however in the free account you get limited but generous bandwidth.Once you pick up a username,for example disposable,you can create any disposable email address like ex@disposable.33mail.com whenever you want without even informing it to 33mail.These email address will be forwarded to your actual email address that you used for registering.You can cut those email address whenever you want by unsubscribing them through the link provided in  each of the forwarded emails.I personally prefer this service.It's fast and free.
  

Backtracking Emails

Most of us believe that the email message sent to them is determined by "FROM" header,but it cannot be denied that most of the times it's forged(Learn How).

The question then arises how to determine where the email came from? You have to understand how email messages are put together in order to backtrack an email message. SMTP is a text based protocol for transferring messages across the internet. A series of headers are placed in front of the data portion of the message. By examining the headers you can usually backtrack a message to the source network, sometimes the source host.

If you are using Outlook or Outlook Express you can view the headers by right clicking on the message and selecting properties or options.If you are using Gmail you need to click on "show original"(click on down arrow next to reply while reading a mail).For Yahoo:In the full message view,"View Full Header" option is placed under the "Actions" tab.

Now Let's Start actual work.Let's Take an example

Spoof Mailing-Send fake email

Spoof mailing is a technique to send email as someone else.It means if my email id is abc@example.com
then sending someone email to appear as if it was sent by me ,in other words,it appears to receiver that he/she has received email from abc@example.com.
There are many free sites available which enable you to send fake emails for free.Some of them are:

• Anonymailer
• Anonymousemail
• Hoaxmail

and many more....
but the problem is that most of these services do not mail the message instantly.Moreover, most of these can easily be identified.I prefer to send mail from my own script.
It's really easy if you know a little bit of php.But I have shared download link for the script
All you have to do is register and get a free hosting account(say on x10hosting.com) and unzip the file.
Keep both the files in the same folder (or you may upload the folder itself ,if possible).Suppose you got abc.x10hosting.com and uploaded the folder in the main directory then you can access the prank mail sender on abc.x10hosting.com/prank
Please note that you may be violating the terms and conditions you agreed to while signing up.Also some hosting sites do not such scripts to run


DOWNLOAD THE SCRIPT

You may also want to read:Backtracking Emails

Email alias by GMail and MSN

Gmail and MSN had been in war for long.This time MSN has gone one step ahead.
Initially gmail provided email alias for gmail users in the following forms

• dot(.) can be used anywhere within the username as another id,for eg. if you own mail@gmail.com then you also own m.ail@gmail.com, ma.il@gmail.com,etc.
• you can use addition symbol(+) after username to get your mails ,i.e. if you own mail@gmail.com then all mails sent to mail+new@gmail.com will also be sent to you.
• you are also allowed capitalization of some or all the alphabets in your username ,for eg. if you own mail@gmail.com then you also own MaIl@gmail.com ,MAIL@gmail.com,etc.

These features help gmail users to manage their emails and reduce spams to get the most out of their email addresses.


Now MSN taken this fight to next level. MSN already provides the dot feature mentioned above but from now on you get 5 more email alias making it as good as getting a new email account.What it means is that if you own mail@hotmail.com you can get all mails sent to message@hotmail.com if you set it as your email alias.

Also note that other sites such as facebook,twitter,etc treat all email alias as a separate email id so you can register many facebook accounts ,or for that matter on any site, with just one email account!!