How to find the IP address of your Google Mail and Yahoo Mail?
About the importance of Electronic Mail, everyone knows the role it plays in our daily life. Imagine a world where there is no such tool as email. It would be a horrible and laborious job to communicate what we do, currently, with a simple click.
We all understand the usefulness factor attached to email. It is one of the fastest, most reliable and personalized modes of communication. But it has been found that very few understand the basics of this communication. We simply write, or attach what we want to communicate and send it. That is what has been found.
At this time when email is gradually being used for business and for many purposes, not to mention being used for phishing and other malicious intent. It is of utmost priority to understand the other “messages” besides what you have sent or received.
Every email comes with a “Header” which is a part of the structure of an email; call it mail DNA. It carries basic critical information such as who the email is from, who it is addressed to, the date/time it was sent, and the subject of the email. It is similar to an email from September. In addition, it also contains other detailed information that we do not normally see.
This basic information comes in all the short/basic headers that most email programs automatically display. This detailed technical information can be viewed in a full header. All email programs can be set to display only a short header or a full header and it is up to users to set the program to display only a “short header” or “full header”.
The full header contains the information of the name of the mail server that the email passed through on its way to the recipient, and the IP address of the sender and even the name of the email program and its version used.
Knowledge of this information is essential for the analysis and investigation of cases related to email abuse, spam, harassment, spoofing and mail bombing. It is worth mentioning that understanding this tool would definitely help people counter such attacks and save themselves from unwarranted consequences. Well, this information could not be found in a short header.
Here we will take the case of Google mail and Yahoo mail to find the full header.
Google Mail.
Using your ID/password, sign in to Gmail.
Open the mail for which you want to find the full sender header.
Click on the inverted triangle located right next to Reply.
You will get something like this…
Delivered to: [email protected]
Received: by 10.36.81.3 with SMTP id e3cs239nzb; Tuesday, September 12, 2007 15:11:47 -0800 (PST)
Return path:
Received: from mail.emailprovider.com (mail.emailprovider.com [111.111.11.111]) by mx.gmail.com with SMTP id h19si826631rnb.2007.03.12.15.11.46; Tuesday, September 12, 2007 15:11:47 -0800 (PST)
Message ID:
received from [11.11.111.111] by mail.emailprovider.com via HTTP; Tuesday, September 12, 2007 3:11:45 PM PST
Date: Tuesday, September 12, 2007 15:11:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Mr. Jones
Subject: hello
To: Mr. Rakesh
In the example, the headers are added to the message three times:
1. When Mr. Jones drafts the email
Date: Tuesday, September 12, 2007 15:11:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Mr. Jones
Subject: hello
To: Mr. Rakesh
2. When the email is sent through the servers of Mr. Jones’s email provider, mail.emailprovider.com
Message ID:
received from [11.11.111.111] by mail.emailprovider.com via HTTP; Tuesday, September 12, 2007 3:11:45 PM PST
3.When the message is transferred from Mr. Jones’s email provider to Mr. Rakesh’s Gmail account
Delivered to: [email protected]
Received: by 10.36.81.3 with SMTP id e3cs239nzb; Tuesday, September 12, 2007 15:11:47 -0800 PST
Return Route: [email protected]
Received: from mail.emailprovider.com (mail.emailprovider.com [111.111.11.111]) by mx.gmail.com with SMTP ID h19si826631rnb; Tuesday, September 12, 2007 15:11:47 -0800 (PST)
Below is a description of each section of the email header:
Delivered to: [email protected]
The email address to which the message will be sent.
Received: by 10.36.81.3 with SMTP id e3cs239nzb;
Tuesday, March 29, 2005 15:11:47 -0800 (PST)
The time the message arrived at the Gmail servers.
Return path:
The address from which the message was sent.
Received: from mail.emailprovider.com
(mail.emailprovider.com [111.111.11.111])
by mx.gmail.com with SMTP ID h19si826631rnb.2005.03.29.15.11.46;
Tuesday, March 29, 2005 15:11:47 -0800 (PST)
The message was received from mail.emailprovider.com, by a Gmail server on March 29, 2005 at approximately 3 pm.
Message ID: [email protected]
A unique number assigned by mail.emailprovider.com to identify the message.
received from [11.11.111.111] by mail.emailprovider.com via HTTP;
Tuesday, March 29, 2005 3:11:45 PM PST
Mr. Jones used email composition software to write the message and it was then received by mail.emailprovider.com’s email servers.
Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 15:11:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Mr. Jones
Subject: hello
To: Mr. Rakesh
The date, sender, subject, and destination: Mr. Jones entered this information (except the date) when he composed the email.
And for IP, look for Received: from followed by the IP in square brackets [ ] e.g
received from [11.11.111.111] by mail.emailprovider.com via HTTP; Kill, 12
It is also important that there are times when you may find multiple Inbox: of entries, in which case select the last one as the valid option.
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