Traceing e mail

There are basically two steps involved in the process of tracking an email : 

A.) find the IP address in the email header section

B.) and then look up the location of the IP address

Finding the IP address of an email sender in GMail, Yahoo Mail, and Outlook

Hey ICA Let’s go ahead and take a look at how you would do this for Google, Yahoo and Outlook since those are the most popular email clients.

Google’s Gmail

1. Log into your account and open the email in question.

2. Click on the down arrow that’s to the right of the Reply link. Choose Show Original from the list.

Now here’s the technical part that I was telling you about earlier ! You need to look for the lines of text that start with “Received: from“. It might be easier to simply press Cntrl + F and perform a search for that phase. You’ll notice that there are several Received From’s in the message header. This is because the message header contains the IP addresses of all of servers involved in routing that email to you.

To find the first computer that originally sent the email, you’ll have to find the Received From that’s farthest DOWN. As you can see from the above image, the first one is from a computer called “aseem” with the IP address 72.204.154.191. Then it was routed to my ISP’s server at eastrmmtao104.cox.net and so on and so forth till it got to your email server.The computer aseem is personal home computer of the sender and 72.204.154.191  that’s his/her public IP address for house ! I’ll go through Yahoo and Outlook before talking about tracking the location of that IP address.

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Yahoo Mail Beta

1. Log into your account and open the email (if you’re using Yahoo Mail Beta with the new preview interface, make sure you double-click on the email so that it opens in a new tab)

2. At the top right, you’ll see there is a drop-down option where Standard Header is selected by default.

3. Click on it and choose Full Header.

In your new Yahoo mail Click on "More options" and then click on "View Full Header"…..

Again, you’ll see the same information as before, just in a different window:

Microsoft Outlook

1. Open the email in Outlook by double-clicking on it

2. Go to View at the top menu (the menu options for the email, not the main Outlook window) and choose Options.

You’ll get a dialog box where you can set the message options and at the bottom you’ll see the Internet Headers box. For some silly reason, the box is very small and you have to scroll a lot, so it’s best to simply copy and paste the text into Notepad to view it more easily.

Now to know that How to Get IP Address of Email Sender, ....

Tracking the location of an IP address

Now that we have our originating IP address of 72.204.154.191, let’s find out where that is! You can do this by perform a location lookup on the IP address. My favorites are IP2Location or http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip-lookup

Another one suggested by one of our reader (Stephany Huneidy) is https://www.vpnmentor.com/tools/ipinfo/ 

Different websites can give different results for location of IP address so better to cross check on different sites.  

Based on my personal experience IP2Location or http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip-lookup gave more accurate (For Location) and detailed result (Including the name of ISP name) than  https://www.vpnmentor.com/tools/ipinfo/