Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Track IP address from received emails

Tracking IP address from received emails...

1.) Finding IP address in Gmail
2.) Finding IP address in Yahoo! Mail
3.) Finding IP address in Hotmail

ONE


Finding IP address in Gmail
# Log into your Gmail account with your username and password.
# Open the mail.
# To display the email headers,
* Click on the inverted triangle beside Reply. Select Show Orginal.
# Look for Received: from followed by the IP address between square brackets [ ].


TWO


Finding IP address in Yahoo! Mail
# Log into your Yahoo! mail with your username and password.
# Click on Inbox or whichever folder you have stored your mail.
# Open the mail.
# 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

# You should see similar headers like this:

Received : from ip address] by SMTP server of sender


THREE


Finding IP address in Hotmail
# Log into your Hotmail account with your username and password.
# Click on the Mail tab on the top.
# Open the mail.
# 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 Mail Display Settings
* In Message Headers, make sure Advanced option is checked
* Click on Ok button
* Go back to the mails and open that mail

# You should see the email headers now.
# If you find a header with X-Originating-IP: followed by an IP address, that is the sender's IP address.

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