How to Find an Email Sender's IP Address in Yahoo Mail

E-mail messages contain more the just a message. It also contains the IP address of the sender which you can then use to isolate the single computer that sent the message, or even the city it came from. Yahoo Mail is no exception to this. You just need to know where to look to find it.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• A yahoo mail email address

1. Log in to you yahoo email account using your username and password. Once you're in your inbox open the message that you are curious to find the senders IP address.

2. If you can't see a block of text above the email address this means that the headers have been turned off and that you need to turn them back on.
   
   To do this click on where it says Compact Header or Standard Header. From this drop down menu select full header and a new box will pop up.

3. Search through the text for the word "Received: from" after this there will be a set of brackets [] inside this there will be the IP address of the sender. If there is more then one use the last one.
   
   For example if you see this in the text:
   Received: from BAY126-W14 ([65.55.131.49]) by bay0-omc1-s33.bay0.hotmail.com
   The sender's IP Address is 65.55.131.49.

4. If you want to trace the IP address to the city where it came from copy and paste the address to this website.
   
   http://aruljohn.com/track.pl