How to Track the Original Location of an Email via its IP Address

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.

Also, note that if you receive an email sent from a Gmail account through the web browser, you may not be able to find the real IP address because Google hides the real IP address of the sender. However, if someone sends you a mail from his/her Gmail account using a client like Thunderbird, Outlook or Apple Mail, you can find the originating IP address.

Find Email Sender IP in Gmail

• Login to your Gmail Account
• Open the mail, for which you want to view the IP address of the sender
• On the right side of mail Click on down arrow and click on Show Original (As shown in Screenshot)

• Search for Received: from and IP address of the sender would be between [] braces. IP address can be in IPv4 or IPv6.

Find Email Sender IP in Yahoo

• Login to your Yahoo Mail Account
• Open the mail, for which you want to view the IP address of the sender
• On the top of mail there is More option, Click on More and Click View Full Header
• Search for Received: from. If you do not find that instance than you search for X-Originating-IPinstance in the Full header. IP address is likely to be between [] braces.

Find Email Sender IP in Hotmail

• Login to your Hotmail Account
• Open the mail, for which you want to view the IP address of the sender
• On the Right side of the mail Click on Actions and click View message Source

• Search for Received: from and you will likely to get IP address in the same line within [] braces.
• By using above tutorial you can easily find the Email Sender IP address. IP address is like to occur in IPv4 or IPv6. Here after I am sharing the guide for How to trace the IP address of the Email Sender. Tracing could be easily done from some online utilities or websites.

  How to trace Email Sender IP address

  TraceIP

  TraceIP.net is works with tracing of both IPv4 and IPv6 IP address. It provide you with full details of the IP address along with geographical location and much more interesting information that you would love to have it.

  IpTrackerOnline

  This utility is likely to work with only IPv4 version IP address. It pops up the categorized information which you would like to go through. Other than these utility there are much more available. Explore more.
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