In this post i will show you How to find the IP address of the sender in Gmail, Yahoo! mail or Hotmail. 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. The tutorial below can help you find the IP address of the sender. Note that this will not work if the sender uses anonymous proxy servers.
What is email Header?

–Finding IP address in Gmail
1. Log into your Gmail account with your username and password.
2. Open the mail.
3. To display the headers, Click on “Show original” corresponding to that thread.
4. You should get header. Look for Received: from followed by a few hostnames and an IP address between square brackets.
2. Open the mail.
3. To display the headers, Click on “Show original” corresponding to that thread.
4. You should get header. Look for Received: from followed by a few hostnames and an IP address between square brackets.
–Finding IP address in Yahoo! Mail
1. Log into your Yahoo! mail with your username and password.
2. Click on Inbox or whichever folder you have stored your mail.
3. Open the mail.
4. If you do not see the headers above the mail message, your headers are not displayed.
To display the headers, Just Scroll down and you will see the option: “Full Headers”
5. You should see similar headers like this:
Yahoo! headers : name
Look for Received: from followed by the IP address between square brackets [ ].
2. Click on Inbox or whichever folder you have stored your mail.
3. Open the mail.
4. If you do not see the headers above the mail message, your headers are not displayed.
To display the headers, Just Scroll down and you will see the option: “Full Headers”
5. You should see similar headers like this:
Yahoo! headers : name
Look for Received: from followed by the IP address between square brackets [ ].
–Finding IP address in Hotmail
1. Log into your Hotmail account with your username and password.
2. Open the desired email in Windows Live Hotmail.
3. Click the down arrow next to Reply in the message’s header area near the sender and subject.
4. Pick View message source from the menu.
5. Look for Received: from followed by IP address within square brackets[].
2. Open the desired email in Windows Live Hotmail.
3. Click the down arrow next to Reply in the message’s header area near the sender and subject.
4. Pick View message source from the menu.
5. Look for Received: from followed by IP address within square brackets[].