Ip address and email

Can you find out someones ip address if they sent you an email? If so, can that IP address tell you the city and state the email was sent from?

Re: Ip address and email

Yes you can see the IP address and there is a site that will then take it and tell you the city and state. The only people that might be able to avoid that are AOL users since there IP addresses change each time they log on (if I remember correctly)

Re: Ip address and email

Its not very likely you will get their IP address in this fashion.

If somebody sends an email... say with Outlook... the email goes from their PC to an outgoing email server. That same outgoing mail server handles all the email for everyone that uses that particular ISP in that region.

If they use a much larger email company like AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo.... or use any sort of webmail to send email... its the same thing. The IP address that sends the email is not their PC... its their shared mail server's IP.


There are some people who have their own PCs programmed to send out email directly... but its not a common occurance and usually only happens with really technical people.

Re: Ip address and email

As far as city/state go... you may be able to find out the general area where the actual mail server IP is from... but again it won't give you the actual user's IP address.


If you can figure out how to get the "header information" from the email you got... forward me the entire contents of the header information in a FM... and I can decipher how the email got to you.

But I need the actual header information... not a forward of the actual email. You may need to ask your email company or do a search on how to get the header information of the email.

Message edited 10/5/2005 12:11:21 AM.

Re: Ip address and email

Thanks Rich, you have FM

Re: Ip address and email

I got some information for you and replied back.

Re: Ip address and email

You rock!
Thanks for you help.