Find IP using Gmail Yahoo and Hotmail
When you recieve
an email, you receive more than just the message. The email comes with headers
that carry important information that can tell where the email was sent from and
possibly who sent it. For that, you would need to find the IP address of the
sender. The tutorial below can help you find the IP address of the sender. Note
that this will not work if the sender uses anonymous proxy servers.First of all, the
IP address is generally found in the headers enclosed beween square brackets,
for instance, [129.130.1.1]
Finding IP address in Gmail
1. Log into your
Gmail account with your username and password.
2. Open the mail.
3.To display the
email headers,Click on the
inverted triangle beside Reply.Select Show Orginal.
4. manually find
the IP address, proceed to 5.
5. Look for
Received: from followed by the IP address between square brackets [ ].Received: from [69.138.30.1] by web4587.mail.***.yahoo.com
6. If you find
more than one Received: from patterns, select the last one.
7.
Track the IP
address of the sender
Finding IP address in Yahoo! Mail
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 the 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 should see
similar headers like above Or if you want to
manually find the IP address, proceed to 6.
6.
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.If there are many
instances of Received: from with the IP address, select the IP address in the last pattern. If there are no instances of Received: from with the IP address,
select the first IP address in X-Originating-IP.
7.
Track the IP address of the sender
Finding IP address in Hotmail
1.
Log into your
Hotmail account with your username and password.
2.Click on the Mail tab on the
top.
3.
Open the 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 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
5.
You should see
the email headers now.
6. manually find
the IP address, proceed to 7.
7. If you find a
header with X-Originating-IP: followed by an IP address, that is the sender’s IP
address
Hotmail headers.In this case the
IP address of the sender is [68.34.60.59].
8. If you find a
header with Received: from followed by a Gmail proxy like this
Hotmail headers.Look forReceived:
from followed by IP address within square brackets[In this case, the
IP address of the sender is [69.140.7.58].
9.
Or else if you
have headers like this
Hotmail headers.Look for Received:
from followed by IP address within square brackets[].In this case, the
IP address of the sender is [61.83.145.129] (Spam mail).
10.
If you have
multiple Received: from headers, eliminate the ones that have
proxy.anyknownserver.com.