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to trace an email back to the location it was sent from?

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YES, ON NETSCAPE THERE IS . . .
What browser are you running? On Netscape you can look at the "message source" without even opening the message. It's in the "View" pull down menu. We have Explorer here also, but don't use it to send or receive email.

This thread has just gone up, so maybe someone with Explorer can talk about that browser. We always check our replies and posts. Perhaps later we can see their answer too.

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I'm using explorer.

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What e-mail program do you use. You mention using Explorer, so I take it you use Outlook Express? If so, open up the e-mail, then click on the "File" menu, scroll down to "Properties" within that menu, click on it. Another window will pop up. If you click on the second tab labelled "Details" you will see all the info there. Usually the first item is the "Return-Path" and that has the e-mail address of the sender. However, creative types get around this. The "Details" are what is more commonly known as the headers of an e-mail. (I dunno why MicroSoft has to be different and call them "Details".)

Here is a page that explains it. I'm not all that knowledgeable about what each line means.

http://www.usus.org/elements/tracing.htm

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Oooo, this site looks even better.

http://www.investigateanyoneonline.com/tracemail.shtml

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I use yahoo for emails, thanks for the info, i'll take alook.

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Depending on where you are in the world, Yahoo! should already show full headers, if not, there should be a link located somewhere on the page (upper right for me in Canada) that you can click on to reveal the full headers. From there you should have the information you need to trace how the e-mail was sent to you.

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I am also in Canada, i'll have to see if i can figure it out.

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Just look at the mesage source and get the originating IP. Then run a traceroute on the IP.

Visualware has a commercial software for Outlook express that simplifies this for the non tech-adept.

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hmm, how do i find that stuff? where is it?

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I found the IP for the email. But can't trace it's location. If I post the IP do you think any of you might be able to find it?

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bookmark

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stand up: What is the IP address?

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66.218.93.12

There it is.

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That IP address originates from Yahoo.

Host name: web41013.mail.yahoo.com

Are you looking for the e-mail address of the sender?

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Nope, I am looking for the location of the sender. I had already found that it came from yahoo. See, I got this nasty email the other day, and i'm curious of where it came from.

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Hmmm...maybe post all the headers?

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I'm sorry, this may sound dumb, what are the headers?

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All the gobbledegook that starts at the head of an e-mail. The following is an example.

Quote:

Return-Path: [email protected]

Received: from rly-za05.mx.aol.com (rly-za05.mail.aol.com [172.31.36.101]) byair-za04.mail.aol.com (v51.16) with SMTP; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 19:16:02 1900
Received: from mailb.telia.com (mailb.telia.com [194.22.194.6]) by rly-za05.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id TAA05189;

Mon, 16 Nov 1998 19:15:53 -0500 (EST)
From: [email protected]

Received: from signal.dk ([194.255.7.40]) by mailb.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA14174; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 01:15:50 +0100 (CET)
Received: from 194.255.7.40 by signal.dk viaSMTP(950413.SGI.8.6.12/940406.SGI.AUTO) id AAA28586; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 00:53:13 +0100

Message-Id: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 98 18:27:19 EST

To: [email protected]
Subject: ATTENTION SMOKERS - QUIT SMOKING IN JUST 7 DAYS

Reply-To: [email protected]

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I don't know what each line represents. There are sites to look it up, but within the headers should contain information regarding where the e-mail originated.

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