Find IP address of sender accounts via Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, Outlook Express

Every time we receive an email, we don't just receive the content inside that message.Specifically, the Header section of the letter contains many important and necessary information about the origin of the sender, place of origin. In the following article, we will present some basic operations to help you identify this information in the simplest way.

But please be aware that this is only possible if the sender uses an anonymous proxy server system. Besides, if you receive an email sent from your Gmail account via a browser, it is difficult to find the correct IP address, because Google has a mechanism to hide this parameter when the data 'goes through'. server. However, if someone sends you an email from Gmail using a program, such as Thunderbird, Outlook, Apple . then this process will become much simpler.

With Gmail:

First, you log into your Gmail account with Username and Password as usual, open any email. To display the Header section of that email, we click the button with the triangle icon next to the Reply to All link and select Show Original:

Look in the Received section, the information here will look like this:

Received: from [69,138.30.1] by web31804.mail.mud.yahoo.com

The number line inside brackets [] is the IP address you want to find, but if you get a lot of Received values ​​included, choose the last value.

With Yahoo:

Same as above, after you log in to your account, select the Inbox and Subject of the email you need to test, right-click and the system will display the menu as shown below:

Continue, find information in Received: from section similar to Gmail. If there are multiple Received: from lines, use the data in the last line. If you can't find any Received: from line, look for X-Originating-IP instead.

With Hotmail:

As we all know, Hotmail has officially been integrated with Windows Live, so the general format has changed a bit. And the following are the steps to proceed.

Log in to your Hotmail or Windows Live account , select the Inbox link on the left. Below the column with the Sort by title, select any email and right-click, you'll see a menu showing some elements like Mark as read, Mark as unread . and finally View message source

Then we will see the Header section of the email. Similarly, look for the information starting with X-Originating-IP - this is the sender's IP address. If there is no X-Originating-IP then we will continue to receive Received: from and the accompanying number is enclosed in brackets []. In case you have multiple Received: from lines, it is necessary to remove the component that comes with the parameter like proxy.anyknownserver.com .

With AOL:

The way to do it with AOL is not much different from the above. To get started, log in to your account with Username and Password, select the email you want to test, above you choose Action> View Message Source from the menu that displays:

The program will open a new page with the attached Header tab, here we just need to search for the information that comes with the X-AOL-IP parameter .

Good luck!