Trace an e-mail address

[wimiadmin]

View the e-mail header...usually by right clicking the e-mail and choosing options. Find the sent from area and there is usually an IP listed. If the message has been sent from Hotmail or Google, there's really no way to trace where the e-mail came from.

[AboveTheLogic]

and more specifically, you can plug that ip in and run a "tracert" command to find the server it came from, the server names usually can give you a clue as to where they are.


or you can put the IP in a site like this or a program like neotrace, and it will show you visually:

[url]http://visualiptrace.visualware.com/[/url]

[fade2020s]

hello
thnx for this informations
but i wanna ask you
how could i know the ip address for my messenger contacts?
then i can trace there ip to know there location
thnx to all

[wimiadmin]

Although I'm not familiar with the name of the software, I've read that there is a tracing program you can run and that will monitor inbound traffic during a conversation and possibly give you an IP address associated with a contact.

If someone knows the name of the software or is familiar with the method I'm referring to or a different method that will give the same result, please post.

Brian

[fade2020s]

in fact i have a program which can give you the ip for the person who talk to you in messenger
but this ip is from msn messenger server
and it is his or her ip
i hope some one can tell use how could we find the ip
by the way the progarm which give you the ip is (messengerDecovery live)
it is very simple
just while making the coverstaion you pree on MDL and press on connetion information
and it gie you the ip
but any way it is not the ip for that conntact
hope someone help us

[AboveTheLogic]

it's not likely you will find that kind of information

even when you trace an email using the header information, you can really only trace it back to the server that sent the email

you would have to have access to the email server's logs to see the ip of the person who actually sent the email

the same holds true with messenger stuff, you are talking to the messenger relay server, that server is being connected to by the user, i can't imagine that server is somehow making the ip of that person available...

[ytarkan]

Originally Posted by AboveTheLogic

it's not likely you will find that kind of information

even when you trace an email using the header information, you can really only trace it back to the server that sent the email

you would have to have access to the email server's logs to see the ip of the person who actually sent the email

the same holds true with messenger stuff, you are talking to the messenger relay server, that server is being connected to by the user, i can't imagine that server is somehow making the ip of that person available...

In fact, it is partly true for MSN only, unless you are transferring file or having a video conversation you are right but in file or video transfer data is transferred directly between two parties so you can see the other parties ip address by issuing command "netstat -a" in command promt and distinguish among other network connections (may need some experience) on the other hand you can Always find both server and senders (client) ip address is message source. this is one of the weak points of smtp. Message sources also reveals the clients mail program (outlook, thunderbird etc) mail server type (exchange,lotus,qmail etc) and lots of other stuff, inspect carefully you can find lots of things

[Orange]

I am using Sprint mobile broadband (sprint card) and i just did an email test. In the header info it revelead my IP address.

Received from: 12-205-345-67.area1.spcsdns.net

(i changed the IP for this post) But you can see it carries over your IP address to the receiver of an email.

[AboveTheLogic]

yeah, I've done some more investigative work with email headers and found that to be true

I've attempted to trace an email in the past and was only given limited information, which is what I based my post on.

[pilif12p]

On Windows Live Hotmail you can, but i am not sure if the IP address is right. To do that you just right click the message then click "View Source"