Not true
Any email sent can be traced right back to the computer that wrote it pretty easily
A normal person with a little computer knowledge can trace it back to show the isp it was sent from.
If the email is a type that's likely to get reported to the police, they can then ask the isp who was using that ip address at that time and date .
Pretty simple stuff and dont think deleting traces can stop them doing that.
The only way to stop emails being traced back to an individual computer is use something like the fixmyownpc cd from
http://www.fixmypcuk.com
Using one of the annonymous email programs wont work as by law records have to be kept for 6 years now, isp's and email suppliers so everything can be traced.
an example of the hidden header in an email...
This is JUST AN EXAMPLE
Received: (qmail 17860 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2008 00:12:49 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO pre-smtp32-01.pro.mesa1.secureserver.net) ([10.0.12.150])
(envelope-sender <
[email protected]>)
by smtp07-01.prod.meta5.secureserver.net (qmail-1.25) with SMTP
for <
[email protected]>; 5 Feb 2008 00:12:49 -0000
Received: (qmail 6032 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2008 00:12:49 -0000
Received: from web62106.mail.re1.yahoo.com ([64.143.72.266])
DomainKey-Signature: a=raa-sh22; q=dns; c=noxws; s=s3334; d=yahoo.com;
X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.260.1
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 16:12:39 -0800 (PST)
From: Bob Wymoo<
[email protected]>
Reply-To:
[email protected]
Subject: RE: Email Forwarding Help
To: Bob Test <
[email protected]>
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1923-12965"
Lots of info in there that says a lot of information including what IP add