Trace an e-mail from Gmail

[wimiadmin]

AboveTheLogic and I did a little test with Gmail. I sent him an e-mail from my Gmail account via Outlook. The only IP displayed in the header when he received it was registered to Google.

My home IP did not show up in the message header whatsoever even though I sent the e-mail from my laptop on my network via e-mail.

Since my IP didn't show up there, we didn't bother testing an e-mail from the Gmail website.

You'll need to be careful though. Certain e-mail programs will include your NAT IP in the message header. Thunderbird is one of those apps.

Brian

[AboveTheLogic]

Yep, thunderbird does that.

Kinda sucks...

[aziernest]

It's quite strange however it sounds interesting that gmail keeps your email untraceable to some extent.
BTW, I just tried sending an email from gmail web-based version to my hotmail, and can confirm that even gmail's webmail is also not showing ip.

[wimiadmin]

Here's an interesting article.

Google lets Gmail give away your location

[JoshuaXiong]

Using Google is just like using a proxy but becarefull the admin there read your mails too.

1. The ad
2. When I was spamming someone with my email of my website. I checked my website IP of visitor and referral. Seems like someone clicked on the link there and got to my IP. Not sure just now because it can be the person getting spammed clicking on it. For sure the IP ISP was from Microsoft. Or can it be a proxy. But I already checked the IP if it was listed on the DNSBL but it was not!

[Arun Shanker]

Dear Sir,

want to trace an email address girdharilal.ssmrp@gmail.com

Please do the needful

Regards
Arun Shanker

[wimiadmin]

Originally Posted by Arun Shanker

Dear Sir,

want to trace an email address girdharilal.ssmrp@gmail.com

Please do the needful

Regards
Arun Shanker

Tracing an email through gmail is not really possible since the only IPs we've seen show up are the IPs to their servers and not the IP of the user.

[kaz110]

hi...

so if i was to email from my account to my other gmail account is it correct that it cannot be traced that one person is using both accounts?? does yahoo do this or hotmail? or are all of these traceble?

[wimiadmin]

I'm sure at some point in the line of sending the email through Gmail whether it be via the web based platform or through email software like Outlook, someone, somewhere can dig deep enough through some log files to find the originating IP.

As for tracing an email through Yahoo!, you can read this thread http://forum.whatismyip.com/f4/trace...om-yahoo-t260/

And for tracing an email through Hotmail, you can read this thread
http://forum.whatismyip.com/f4/trace...m-hotmail-t80/

[Hanziness]

I tried GMail too. Bad e-mail service, I saw hundreds of comments about this. Everyone sad: "The GMail gives your e-mail to spammer and malware sites." I tried. Everyday I got 6-7 spam and every e-mail had an Attachement. I think this attachement always a virus. (Like MiMail or other)

And I don't trust in google. I know, every search engine has some viruses. But google...
I just opened Firefox, the start page was on Google, and after 2 seconds I got 3 alerts of attacks. Every attack comes from the same IP.

I hate google (everyone says: "Google is your friend", but I say: "Google is your enemy"). I talked from it on a gamimg forum, but the guys doesn't believes in it.
I'm using Firewall+ 2 ScriptBlocker+ AV + Site Checker, but this is not enough for these malware sites