Hi
Its actually possible to gather some information so long as your mail client allows you to view the message headers but it will only show you details of the systems used to send the mail to you, not anything beforehand - but this information relates to internet based mail only - if you are referring to corporate systems like Lotus Notes or Microsoft Exchange, there are tools within to track mails as companies may be obliged to store this kind of information.
I've just joined answerbank today so I'll use my sign-up welcome message as an example:
Return-Path: <
[email protected]>
Received: from ebm2.cheetahmail.com (ebm2.cheetahmail.com [207.251.96.126])
by myhost.co.uk (8.14.1/8.13.8) with SMTP id m24HIMaA002946
for <
[email protected]>; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 17:18:23 GMT
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 17:18:44 -0000
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?AnswerBank_Registration?= <
[email protected]>
Message-Id: <
[email protected]>
Received: (qmail 13842 invoked by uid 108); Tue, 4 Mar 2008 17:18:44 -0000
Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?q?AnswerBank_Registration?= <
[email protected]>
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?q?The_AnswerBank_Registration_for_white_crocs?=
To:
[email protected]
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-myhost.co.uk-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information
X-myhost.co.uk-MailScanner: Found to be clean
X-myhost.co.uk-MailScanner-From:
[email protected]
X-Spam-Status: No