How to find the IP address of the email sender

AOL

1. Log into your AOL Mail AIM account with your username and password.
2. Open the email that you want to track.
3. On the top row, click on Action and in the drop-down menu, select View Message Source.
4. It opens a new page with the headers.
5. Once you have the headers, look for the IP address that follows X-AOL-IP:. That should be the IP address of the sender.
6. Track the IP address of the sender.

Gmail

1. Log into your Gmail account with your username and password.
2. Open the mail.
3. To display the email headers, Click on the inverted triangle beside Reply. Select Show Original.
4. Look for Received : from followed by the IP address between square brackets[ ]. > Received: from[IP] by Email.
5. If you find more than one Received: from patterns, select the last one.
6. Track the IP address of the sender.

Hotmail

1. Log into your Hotmail/Windows Live account with your username and password.
2. Click on the Inbox link on the left.
3. Under the column that says Sort by , find the email that you want to track and right-click on it.
4. You should get a menu that has something like Mark as read, Mark as unread, and so on.
5. The last option in the menu should be View message source. Select it.
6. You should see the email headers now.
7. If you find a header with X-Originating-IP: followed by an IP address, that is the sender's IP address.
8. If that doesn't work, look for Received: from followed by IP address within square brackets[].
9. If you have multiple Received: from headers, eliminate the ones that have proxy.anyknownserver.com.
10. Track the IP address of the sender.

Outlook/Outlook Express

1. Log into your Outlook account with your username and password.
2. Open the mail.
3. To display the email headers, Click on the inverted triangle beside Reply. Select Show Original.
4. Look for Received : from followed by the IP address between square brackets[ ]. > Received: from[IP] by Email.
5. If you find more than one Received: from patterns, select the last one.
6. Track the IP address of the sender.

Yahoo! Mail

1. Log into your Yahoo! mail with your username and password.
2. Click on Inbox or whichever folder you have stored your mail.
3. Click on the email you want to track. When it opens, click on More. You'll get a dropdown menu.
4. Select View Full Header.
5. Look for Received: from followed by the IP address between square brackets [ ]. That should most likely be the IP address of the sender.
6. If there are many instances of Received: from with the IP address, select the IP address in the last pattern.
7. If there are no instances of Received: from with the IP address, select the first IP address in X-Originating-IP.
8. Track the IP address of the sender.