About mailcheck

• What is mailcheck? Mailcheck is an email header analyzer tool that detects whether your emailis spoofed or not. This help in detection of phishing and spammed mails.

• What are the information revealed by the mailcheck? Mailcheck parses the following headers:

  • Message-ID
  • SPF-Record
  • DKIM-Record
  • DMARC-Record
  • Spoofed Email detection based on the above headers
  • IP-Address of the sender
  • Service Provider used for sending the email
  • Content-Type
  • Data and Time
  • Subject

Installation

You have two methods to use metacheck. Either you can download the github repo and run the mailcheck.py file from the command line. Make sure you have all requirements installed in this case like python3. You may also run the standalone binaries. This is for those who have very little technical knowledge.

1. Clone the repository

  git clone https://github.com/FeNriR0077/Email-security-mailcheck-.git

2. Running from the mailcheck.py file

  cd Email-security-mailcheck-
  
  pip install -r requirements.txt
  
  chmod +x mailcheck.py
  
  python3 mailcheck.py

Usage

Either you are on windows or linux first download the original metadata of the email using the show original / view raw / download original option.

Then we pass the eml file to the executable.

Linux

1. Use mailcheck.py from the cloned repo. (Python is required)

python3 mailcheck.py -f message.eml

Windows

1. Running from the repository cloned (Python Required)

python3 mailcheck.py -f message.eml

or

python mailcheck.py -f message.eml