Things You'll Need:
- Internet
- Email address
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Step 1
When you receive an email, you receive more than just the message. The email comes with headers that carry important information that can tell you where the email was sent from and possibly who sent it. For that, you would need to find the IP address of the sender. This article will help you in finding out the IP address of the sender.
There are lots of email providers but mainly are some like yahoo, gmail, hotmail, rediff etc. I am giving you the details for yahoo and gmail because it would be very lenghty for the readers, though its very similiar for all the email providers you have to just crack some of your mind to get it display if you with other email providers. -
Step 2
For Yahoo mail users :
1. Log into your Yahoo! mail with your username and password.
2. Click on Inbox or whichever folder you have stored your mail.
3. Open any mail.
4. If you do not see the headers above the mail message, your headers are not displayed. To display the headers :
* Click on Options on the top-right corner
* In the Mail Options page, click on General Preferences
* Scroll down to Messages where you have the Headers option
* Make sure that Show all headers on incoming messages is selected
* Click on the Save button
* Go back to the mails and open that mail
5. You will see similar headers like this:
Yahoo! headers : name
Look for Received: from followed by the IP address between square brackets [ ]. Here, it is 202.65.138.109.
That is be the IP address of the sender! -
Step 3
For Gmail users :
1. Log into your Gmail account with your username and password.
2. Click on Inbox or whichever folder you have stored your mail.
3. Open any mail.
4. To display the headers,
* Click on More options corresponding to that thread. You should get a bunch of links.
* Click on Show original
5. You will get headers like this:
Gmail headers : name
Look for Received: from followed by the IP address between square brackets [ ]. Here, it is 202.65.138.109.
That is be the IP address of the sender!
Comments
klroywshere said
on 7/18/2009 Is there a program you can use and type in an email and get the IP from it? Or is there a program you can use and get the IP from a user of a blog site?
ladym33 said
on 4/13/2009 Good to know
mpenney said
on 9/7/2008 What about hotmail?
oana22 said
on 7/1/2008 what if in there i find a ip : 127.0.0.1 ?? it represents a loopback ... what is that???
AutumnLeavz said
on 5/26/2008 Interesting article, thanks for sharing!