Non Boaty question about IP addresses

[StephenSails]

Hi,

Sorry for the non boaty questions, how do you find out the ip address of the sender of an email? is there any other information that can be gleaned out of the email?

Thanks

Stephen

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[Steve_Jones]

In most cases you can't, the SMTP header of the e-mail gives lots of info as to how the e-mail was routed from sender to recipient and will show server names etc. The amount of info you can see and how you do it depends upon the mail client you are using, if it's Outlook/Outook Express I can talk you through it. In many cases the sender will have a dynamic IP address as they may be on a dial-up connection, those with broadband/ADSL will usually have a static IP but this may be of limited use to you. It depends on why you want/need to know!!

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[jhr]

Don't know about other applications, but in Outlook, select View, then Options and you will get a box which shows, amongst other things, Internet Headers. This usually has a quantity of gobbledegook in it, including ip addresses, route taken by the message, etc. I don't speak computer, so I can't interpret for you, I'm afraid. However, our IT Manager (who told me to do this, and forward him the info for translation, when I received some dodgy e-mail) also happened to mention that the information could be fake in some cases.

I'd guess other email software has a similar facility.

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[Nick_Pam]

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[ColinW]

Be careful because the info you'll see might fool you into thinking an e-mail is genuine when it isn't, for example you'll almost certainly see barclays.co.uk in the info for an e-mail supposedly (but not) coming from Barclays. Faking e-mail addresses is very easy! Never open any e-mail purporting to come from a bank and certainly never follow any links within the e-mail.


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[ColinW]

PS. If you use Outlook 2000 for your e-mail make sure you have it set to open e-mails in the "Restricted Sites" zone, so that html scripting and ActiveX controls are disabled. (Tools-Options-Security then change zone from "Internet" to "Restricted Sites") Later versions of Outlook do this by default.


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