Is there a way to track what ip someone is accessing their yahoo mail with

[BabaBooey]

My daughter ran from a treatment center friday and I know she has accessed her yahoo mail since then and need to track the ip that she is using and find out where she is.

thanks and I do have access to her acct.

 

[DnetMHZ]

If you have access to a message that she sent to you or someone else, y ou can get the originating IP from the message headers

It will look something like the below (IP in bold)

Received: from [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] by webxxxx.mail.ac2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:55:53 PDT
X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.8.113.315625

 

[r0k]

Those headers are valid for a pop client on a device, not for web mail. If law enforcement gets involved they can get ip addresses from yahoo or at&t's server logs but if it's just you looking for a family member At&t/yahoo will pretty much ignore you.

 

[DnetMHZ]

Those headers are valid for a pop client on a device, not for web mail. If law enforcement gets involved they can get ip addresses from yahoo or at&t's server logs but if it's just you looking for a family member At&t/yahoo will pretty much ignore you.

Actually those are headers from a message I sent to myself via webmail.
Notice it says received via HTTP in the header.

It does indeed list the IP of the computer I used to access Yahoo web mail.

 

[mindless1]

I wonder if it'd worth to send her HTML email pulling an image from a server under your control, then look at the server logs for what IP accessed the image.

However, once you have that IP... without a court order any responsible ISP won't give you an account name or address.

Another way, a bit less ethical but nevertheless... if you know of forum(s) where she hangs out and can socially engineer the forum admin to get the IP # off her posts, or send her an email posing as a friend trying to engage her in some random conversation on a forum where you have allies who can get the IP # for you. Again, underhanded, less ethical, but...