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Sunday, November 13, 2011

Email Tracer


 
Would you like to know the origin of the email you received?  Before you do that you have to copy first the email header of the email you want to trace.  The picture above is a sample of an email header, there are some information that are covered for privacy reason.  For the following email you may follow the instructions on how to get the email header.

Yahoo
1. Open an email
2. At the lower right of the screen, click Full Headers
3. Highlight the email header
4. Press Ctrl + C

Gmail
1. Open an email
2. Click Show Original
3. Highlight the email header
4. Press Ctrl + C


Once you are done with the copying of email header open this website http://www.ip-adress.com/trace_email/  and under  the “For email tracing copy and paste an email header in this field:” paste the email header.  Click Trace Email Sender button.

From now on you will be able to know where an email originated. Enjoy tracing....

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