How To Find The Email Sender’s Original IP Address

If someone is harassing you via email or flooding your inbox with junk mail you may want to find the location of the email sender. This can now be done very simple using the online tool developed by MyIPTest.com.

Every email received contains the routing of the email and the originating IP of the email sender. Not all emails can be traced back to the originating point but most of them can.

First step: get the email headers

No matter what email application you are using, the headers are usually just one right-click away. Here is how to find them for the most common email programs:

• GMail  – Open the email. In the upper right corner of the email you’ll see the word Reply with a little down arrow to the right. Click the down arrow and choose Show Original.
• Yahoo! Mail – Right click the email in the inbox and choose View Full Headers.
• Windows Live Mail – Right click the email while it’s in the inbox, choose Properties, then click the Details tab.
• Hotmail – Right click the email in the inbox and choose View Message Source.
• Outlook – Right click the email while it’s in the inbox and choose Message Options. A window will open with the headers in the bottom of the window.
  

Second step: trace the IP address

After you find the headers, copy them to clipboard (Ctrl+C). Next, go to MyIPTest.com email trace page, paste the header (Ctrl+V) and press Check it button. You will get a table containing the IP address of the sender and IP addresses of the servers that have routed the email. To find more info about the IP addresses, press Check Whois button.