Retrieve source of an email

Clarifications

the method for retrieving the original email headers from a given email vary depending upon client used. You can search google to determine the correct one for your email application. ex. search term would be "view original email header Outlook 2007" minus the quotation marks. Once you have the original opened, highlight and copy the header info and then paste it into the box located at mxtoolbox dot com/emailheaders.aspx -I think you know how to correct the url here- and click the button labeled "Analyze Header". It will return a complete profile of the header that is much easier to understand.

Thank you smartacewolf that was what i was looking for.

If the boss wants to trace the origin of the message, the contents must be somewhat controversial. So it is very possible that the sender has faked the traces in the header, which is easily done, perhaps even in the attempt to incriminate someone on the inside.

Not to insult the poster, but someone needing to ask how to look for headers is not having the practice in determining true from false headers, and correctly point the finger at someone.

If there is indeed a need to have something, which can be taken as admittable evidence (sp?), you need access to logs, which could require police or FBI and subphoenas to get.