{"id":6192,"date":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/?p=6192"},"modified":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","slug":"how-to-find-the-ip-address-of-an-email-sender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/how-to-find-the-ip-address-of-an-email-sender\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Find out the IP Address of an Email Sender"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Do you want to find out the IP address of the sender of an email in other to verify his location or use it for other purposes? Then read the article below as it has been written to described how to find out the IP address of an email sender.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The IP address of a user could give a clue about his activities online, reveals where the user lives, and make it possible for web services to enforce content access right and content geo-targeting.<\/p>\n

For every web request a device sent to the Internet, it sends its IP address along as this is required for network interface communication. However, most web services keep the IP address of their users private and would not reveal them to external parties. This has not always been the case.<\/p>\n

In the past, many web services, most especially online discussion forums, would display the IP address of their users publicly, but they later discovered that IP address in the hand of a skillful but malicious hacker is a recipe for disaster and as such, no longer make it public.<\/p>\n

However, some web services still reveal the IP address of their users, and email services are some of these services. It might interest you to know that one of the easiest ways to get the IP address<\/a> of a user online is by getting the person to send you an email as email services provide the IP address of the sender in the email sender.<\/p>\n

With the IP address of an email sender, you can verify his location to avoid a location scam. Some scammers would pose as living in the United States when they are somewhere in Africa or Asia. With the guide in the article, you can discover the real location of an email sender.<\/p>\n\n

<\/span>Email Headers: The Containers of Senders IP Address<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

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When you receive an email, it comes in two major sections \u2013 the email body, which contains the actual message sent to you, and email headers which contain meta data about the email received.<\/p>\n

Generally, you can regard email headers as some sort of an envelope with details of the sender and receiver in electronic format. They are series of lines that precede an actual email message. Below is a list of popular email headers and the information they contain.<\/p>\n

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  • To:<\/strong> Contains the name and email address of the recipient<\/li>\n
  • From: <\/strong>Contains the name and email address of the sender<\/li>\n
  • Date:<\/strong> Contains the date the email was created<\/li>\n
  • Subject:<\/strong> Contains the subject of the email<\/li>\n
  • Return-Path:<\/strong> Contains the email for responding to the email<\/li>\n
  • Received:<\/strong> The time the email was delivered to the recipient with the IP address<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    The Received header is the header of interest in this article as it is the one that holds information about the IP address of the sender. One thing you need to know is that email headers are not displayed by default in most cases, and you will agree with me that you do not use to see the above headers when emails are sent to you.<\/p>\n

    They are likened to requests and response headers that your browsers won\u2019t show you except you dig them out yourself. Let me show you how to reveal the email headers below.<\/p>\n\n