Wednesday, November 24, 2010

How to Find out Email Sender's IP address in Thunderbird

Very often it is necessary to find out the IP address of an E-mail Sender. This post deals with how to find out the IP address of a specific email sender, by using the Email client "Thunderbird".


It is very easy to find out it by using Thunderbird. Just follow the following steps.
1. Just select the email (of which you want to know the IP address of the  sender)
2. Now on your key board, press "Ctrl+u" keys.
3. Now you will get a new window stating the details of that particular message, more or less like this.      Identity the IP address and use some websites which helps to geographically locate the IP address.

Originating-IP: [xxx.19x.0.x]
Authentication-Results: ..............
Received: from 127.0.0.1  (........) (xxx.19x.0.x)
  by xxxx.mail.com.xxxx.com with SMTP; Tue,
16 Jan 2010 16:17:29 +0530
Received: from dEXXXER.xxxx.in (192.168.1.7) by
 xxxxMAILSER.xxxx.com (192.168.1.9) with xxx SMTP Server (TLS) id
 x.1.xxx.0; Tue, 16 Jan 2010 16:02:55 +0530
From: sombody <sombody@xxxx.com>
 
 
NOTE: Above illustration is given only for illustrative purpose.
Those who use to do this DO IT AT HIS/HER OWN RISK.


2 comments:

  1. Each electronic messaging program will vary as to how you get to the message options.

    Outlook – Right click the message while it’s in the inbox and choose Message Options. A window will open with the headers in the bottom of the window.

    Windows Live – Right click the correspondence while it’s in the inbox, choose Properties, then click the Details tab.
    GMail – Open the correspondence. In the upper right corner of the email you’ll see the word Reply with a little down arrow to the right. Click the down arrow and choose Show Original.
    Hotmail – Right click the memo and choose View Message Source.
    Yahoo! – Right click the note and choose View Full Headers.
    AOL – Click Action and then View Message Source.




    Once u get the IP do a IP check in Ip-details.com ...

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