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.
Note that this will not work if the sender uses anonymous proxy servers.
Also, note that if you receive an email sent from a Gmail account through the web browser, you may not be able to find the real IP address because Google hides the real IP address of the sender. However, if someone sends you a mail from his/her Gmail account using a client like Thunderbird, Outlook or Apple Mail, you can find the originating IP address.
For finding IP address of sender folow following steps:-
1.open Gmail.
2.click on email whose ip address you want to know.
3.Then click on more button then click show original.
4.Now press CTRL+F(to find) and type "Received: from" without quotes.
5.Go to the last Received: from line there you will get ([X.X.X.X]).
6.X.X.X.X is the IP address of the sender.
Note that this will not work if the sender uses anonymous proxy servers.
Also, note that if you receive an email sent from a Gmail account through the web browser, you may not be able to find the real IP address because Google hides the real IP address of the sender. However, if someone sends you a mail from his/her Gmail account using a client like Thunderbird, Outlook or Apple Mail, you can find the originating IP address.
For finding IP address of sender folow following steps:-
1.open Gmail.
2.click on email whose ip address you want to know.
3.Then click on more button then click show original.
4.Now press CTRL+F(to find) and type "Received: from" without quotes.
5.Go to the last Received: from line there you will get ([X.X.X.X]).
6.X.X.X.X is the IP address of the sender.
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