Thursday, August 9, 2007

How to find the IP address of sender in YAHOO

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 Yahoo! Mail

1. Log into your Yahoo! mail with your username and password.
2. Click on Inbox or whichever folder you have stored your mail.
3. Open the mail.
4. If you do not see the headers above the mail message, your headers are not displayed. To display the headers,* Click on Options on the top-right corner* In the Mail Options page, click on General Preferences* Scroll down to Messages where you have the Headers option* Make sure that Show all headers on incoming messages is selected* Click on the Save button* Go back to the mails and open that mail.
5. You should see similar headers like this:Yahoo! headers : nameLook for Received: from followed by the IP address between square brackets [ ]. Here, it is 202.65.138.109.That is be the IP address of the sender!
6. Track the IP address of the sender

9 Comments:

Anonymous said...

Is there any way to find the IP address of a friend in orkut

chaitanya said...

i think there is no such way but if i find it i will post it

Anonymous said...

wat abt finding te IP address of a friend who sent a mail thru gmail

Path Finder said...

IP Address in gmail
Its simple and almost same as in yahoo. Open the mail there is a link show details, adjacent to its is reply link button and adjacent to it is another link button (down arrow) click on it and then click (show original).

Path Finder said...

but i have doubt. mails we got are routed through mail servers of yahoo or google and what ip we see may be of these servers. bcoz on internet u are not going to get any e-mail directly from any host.

Unknown said...

Yes in this case the shown IP is the IP of google server not the IP of Sender.

Unknown said...

in this way we can have only the IP of the google Server.

Anonymous said...

in this way we can have only the IP of server mail not the sender

Unknown said...

U can get only server's IP not sender's

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