How to find the IP address of the email sender

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.

If you receive an email sent from a Gmail account through the web browser, you may not be able to find the real IP address because Google hides the real IP address of the sender. However, if someone sends you a mail from his/her Gmail account using a client like Thunderbird, Outlook or Apple Mail, you can find the originating IP address.

Finding IP address in Gmail

1. Log into your Gmail account.
2. Open the mail. For which you want to trace the address.
3. To display the email headers, Click on the inverted triangle beside Reply. Select Show Original





4. Copy Header displayed in above step and use IP address detection script to ease the process. You can use Free Tool
5. Look for Received: from followed by the IP address between square brackets [] Received: from mx008.twitter.com (mx008.twitter.com [128.121.146.144])
6. If you find more than one Received: from patterns, select the last one.
7. Finally track the IP address of the sender

Finding IP Address in Yahoo! Mail

1. Log into your Yahoo mail account.
2. Open the mail for which you want to trace address.
3. Click the subject of mail you want to trace and right click.
4. Copy the header displayed in above step and use the IP Detection Tool.
5. Look for Received: from followed by the IP address between square brackets []
6. Trace the IP address of the sender.