How to find the IP address of the sender in Gmail
When you receive an email, you receive more than just the
message. The email comes with headers that carry important information that can
tell where the email was sent from and possibly who sent it. For that, you
would need to find the IP address of the sender. The tutorial below can help
you find the IP address of the sender. Note that this will not work if the
sender uses anonymous proxy servers.
Finding IP address in Gmail:
1.Log into your Gmail account with your username and
password.
2. Open the mail.
3. To display the headers,* Click on More options
corresponding to that thread. You should get a bunch of links.* Click on Show
original.
4. You should get headers like this:Gmail headers :
nameLook for Received: from followed by a few hostnames and an IP address
between square brackets. In this case, it is65.119.112.245.That is be the IP
address of the sender!
5. Track the IP address of the sender.
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ReplyDeleteNice blog useful for those who are looking for some other tricks to find the ip address and location of a sender in gmail ...I followed the steps which you mentioned here and easily find the ip address of one victim who use to sent unwanted mail to me in gmail ....After finding the ip address i did whois search for that ip address through sites like WhoisXY.com to trace his location but i can trace only details like ip location ,country ,ISP name ,ISP address and so on but i can't trace exact home address of that person from ip address we can trace only ISP details from ip address ..
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