Is there any way to trace the origin of an email?

[Sporko]

Even if I could localize the source to an area or city would be useful. Is there any way to do this?

 

[Talon]

In Outlook Express, select the e-mail message, select "properties" from the File menu, and then "details".

 

[Techwhore]

how might one do this from non-outlook mail? Is it dependant on the provider? For instance, i use mail.com....

 

[AC]

objective: view headers to see ip address
purpose: so that u can "finger" them with a utility

is someone stalking u or something? threatning emails?

 

[Moonbender]

AFAIK, sending emails under a false name is very easy, so if you're trying to find out something about anyone who doesn't want you to find out, you're probably out of luck.

 

[sun818]

You need to look at the message header of an e-mail. In Outlook, you open the message and go to Viewptions. Now, you will see a series of domains and IP addresses. Only thing that is reliable is the IP address in brackets such as [64.78.0.183]. All the other information in the message header can be faked. Now, to figure out the originating e-mail location, you can perform a lookup of the last "Received" line starting from the top. Take that IP address and perform a ping on it. If you can resolve a domain name, try performing an nslookup on that domain. That may provide registrar contact info.

Thanks,
Sun

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