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Faizan
If you've ever received a threat by email, or you are continuing to receive a newsletter that you know you've unsubscribed from, or you got an email that had a virus attached, then chances are you've wanted to find the IP address of the sending email address so you could put a stop to getting those emails. Since all email programs carry this information in the header of any email you receive, you just have to learn how to get the header to show all its information.This is actually quite easy to do. For the purposes of this article you'll learn how to do so with Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook and Yahoo Mail.
Open Outlook Express.
Find and open the email that you want to find the IP address for.
Go to the File drop-down menu and select Properties, and then the Details tab. This will have the IP address. You are looking for a line says something like "Received: from white.com 34.25.67.43 by white.com," for example. You want the line that has this set of four numbers, as that is the IP address of the sender.
Open Microsoft Outlook.
Open the email that you want to find the IP address for in Microsoft Outlook.
Go to View drop-down menu and select Options. You will find the header information under the Delivery Options section. You are looking for a line that reads something like this, "Received: from [24,36,78.98] helo=wpproxy.gmail.com." Again you want those four numbers, as this is the IP address for the sender.
Yahoo Mail
Go to mail.yahoo.com and sign into your email account.
Double-click on your inbox to open it. Open the email that you want to find the IP address for.
Go to the bottom right-hand side of your email box and click on the link that says Full Headers. This will open up the header on your email and show all the header information. You are looking for the section labeled Authentication-Results. The line will read something like this, "from 216.252.110.47 (HELO web55801.mail.re3.yahoo.com) (216.252.110.47) by mta103.mail.re4.yahoo.com," and will be on the second line of this section. You want the set of four numbers that, as you know now, is the IP address.
Open Outlook Express.
Find and open the email that you want to find the IP address for.
Go to the File drop-down menu and select Properties, and then the Details tab. This will have the IP address. You are looking for a line says something like "Received: from white.com 34.25.67.43 by white.com," for example. You want the line that has this set of four numbers, as that is the IP address of the sender.
Open Microsoft Outlook.
Open the email that you want to find the IP address for in Microsoft Outlook.
Go to View drop-down menu and select Options. You will find the header information under the Delivery Options section. You are looking for a line that reads something like this, "Received: from [24,36,78.98] helo=wpproxy.gmail.com." Again you want those four numbers, as this is the IP address for the sender.
Yahoo Mail
Go to mail.yahoo.com and sign into your email account.
Double-click on your inbox to open it. Open the email that you want to find the IP address for.
Go to the bottom right-hand side of your email box and click on the link that says Full Headers. This will open up the header on your email and show all the header information. You are looking for the section labeled Authentication-Results. The line will read something like this, "from 216.252.110.47 (HELO web55801.mail.re3.yahoo.com) (216.252.110.47) by mta103.mail.re4.yahoo.com," and will be on the second line of this section. You want the set of four numbers that, as you know now, is the IP address.
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