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. 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.
Finding IP address in Gmail:
1.Log into your Gmail account with your username and password.
2. Open the mail.
3. To display the headers,* Click on More options corresponding to that thread. You should get a bunch of links.* Click on Show original.
4. You should get headers like this:Gmail headers : nameLook for Received: from followed by a few hostnames and an IP address between square brackets. In this case, it is 65.119.112.245. That is be the IP address of the sender!
5. Track the IP address of the Sender
1.Log into your Gmail account with your username and password.
2. Open the mail.
3. To display the headers,* Click on More options corresponding to that thread. You should get a bunch of links.* Click on Show original.
4. You should get headers like this:Gmail headers : nameLook for Received: from followed by a few hostnames and an IP address between square brackets. In this case, it is 65.119.112.245. That is be the IP address of the sender!
5. Track the IP address of the Sender
