This is a simple guide on how to track email’s originating location by checking the email’s IP address and looking it up.

How to obtain IP address of an email sender in GMail, Yahoo Mail, and Outlook Client

Google’s Gmail

1. Log into your account and open the email.

2. Click the down arrow next to Reply link. Choose Show Original from the list.

Now start looking for a line start with “Received: from“. You’ll notice there are multiple Received From’s in the message header because the message header contains the IP addresses of all of servers involved in routing that email to you.

To find the first computer that originally sent the email, you’ll have to find the Received From that’s most below of the page.

Yahoo Mail

1. Log into your account and open the email

2. At the top right, there is a drop-down menu where you will see Standard Header and Full Header.

3. Click on it and choose Full Header.

4. Follow the similar step in Google’s Gmail.

Microsoft Outlook

1. Open the email in Outlook

2. Go to View at the top menu and choose Options under your email window.

3. At the bottom you’ll see the Internet Headers box.

Tracking the location of an IP address

Now you already know your email’s originating IP address. Next, you need to check the location of the IP address. You can use IP2Location or Domain Tools

Enjoy tracking down suspicious email.

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