Thursday, May 26, 2011

Find the Address of the Computer Who's Sending You E-Mail

When you receive 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.

Lets begin this. 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 Yahoo! Mail

Log into your Yahoo! mail with your username and password.
Click on Inbox or whichever folder you have stored your mail.
Click on the Subject of the email you want to track and right-click. Menu should look like this:





You may copy the headers and use my IP address detection script to ease the process. Or if you want to manually find the IP address, proceed to the next step.

Look for Received: from followed by the IP address between square brackets [ ].
That should most likely 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.

To quickly track the IP Address, click here:
http://aruljohn.com/info/howtofindipaddress/#yahoo

1 comment:

  1. How do I find out if the person that i'm chatting with is real and not a scammer. I'm following for him but don't want to get hurt?

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