When you receive an email, you receive more than just the message. the email comes with headers that contain important information that may indicate 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 sender ip address.
Note that this will not work if the sender uses anonymous proxy servers. In addition, if you receive an email sent from a Gmail or Outlook account via web browser, you may not be able to find the real IP address because Google and Microsoft hide the real IP address of the sender. however, if someone sends you an email from your gmail account using a desktop client like thunderbird, outlook, or apple mail, you can find the source ip address.
let’s get this started. First of all, the ip address is usually found in the headers enclosed in square brackets, for example, [129.130.1.1]
find ip address in gmail
- login to your gmail account with your username and password.
- open the mail.
- to display the email headers,
- click the inverted triangle next to reply. select show original.
- you can copy the headers and use my ip address detection script to make the process easier. or if you want to manually find the ip address, go to 5.
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look for received: followed by the ip address in square brackets [ ]. > received: from [69.138.30.1] by web31804.mail.mud.yahoo.com
if you find more than one pattern received: from, select the last one.
find the ip address in yahoo! mail
- log in to your yahoo! email with your username and password.
- click on inbox or the folder where you have saved your mail.
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click on the email you want to track. when it opens, click more. you will get a dropdown menu.
select view full header.
you can copy the headers and use my ip address detection script to make the process easier. or if you want to manually find the ip address, continue to the next step.
find ip address in hotmail
hotmail has been integrated with windows live, or vice versa. and the format has changed. this is how to find the ip address of the sender.
- log in to your hotmail/windows live account with your username and password.
- click the inbox link on the left.
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Under the column that says “sort by”, find the email you want to track and right-click on it. you should get a menu that has something like mark as read, mark as unread, etc. the last menu option should be view message source. select it.
You should see the email headers now.
- if you have multiple received: from headers, remove the ones with proxy.anyknownserver.com.
find ip address in aol
- log in to your aol mail aim account with your username and password.
- open the email you want to track.
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on the top row, click action and from the dropdown menu, select view message source
opens a new page with the headers. once you have the headers, find the ip address that follows x-aol-ip:. that should be the sender’s ip address.
ip address detection tool
you can find my ip address detection tool. all you have to do is select your email service and copy your email headers into the box. you can do one of the following:
- You can copy all headers from your email and paste them_ here. in this case, unnecessary headers (such as subject:) will be removed automatically.
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you can remove all headers except those starting with
source-ip-x: received:
Originally written Spring 2001. Updated June 25, 2022.
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last updated: July 25, 2022. This post was originally written on December 15, 2010.
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