How mails sent thru anonymous proxy servers be traced out?

Hi,

If someone sends a mail thru an anonymous proxy server listed
in different sites , will it be possible to trace them out.
How it can be traced out ?
anybody knows abt this ?
I want to find out who sends mail from where? :confused:


bye
one and zero

I hate to do this, but I'm going to cite Carolyn Meinel's "Guides to (Mostly) Harmless Hacking".

The one on fighting spam (usually generated from supposed "anonymous" mailers) should be of particular interest:

http://www.happyhacker.org/gtmhh/vol1no5.shtml

If this isn't enough, or if you need specific help, let me know.

--PhirePhreak

Hi,

Thanks for ur reply. What i meant is , if someone tries to hack my machine thru anonymous
servers how they can be traced out.
If i get their IP address, which is the anonymous server..is it possible to trace them out.
I didnt mean it as a spam.

bye,
1&0

I want to find out who sends mail from where?

These might help. If they are trying to send "anonymous" email, reading the email headers could get your their original email address.

http://www.stopspam.org/email/headers/headers.html
http://www.icgroup.com/headers.html

If i get their IP address, which is the anonymous server..is it possible to trace them out.

Now, your second question is how to deal with those who attack you from "proxied" sources. To be honest, I don't know of anyway to go after this individual unless they provide a connect that you can access (victim --> attacker) where you get access on their machine. You would need the proxying service to provide that information (which they may or may not keep).

If you use NeoTrace, it will show you nodes and IP addresses where the attacker's connection goes through...i'm not too sure if this could help but its worth giving it a try and checking all those locations....maybe i'm wrong. GL