How do you know where an Email comes from?

[pesty4077]

For all you computor geeks, please tell me how I can find out where an Email is coming from. Like the orgin of city, country. Thank You.

 

[microcentillion]

In short, you can't. Origins can be spoofed, and even if they aren't, any consumer-grade email service would obfuscate the geographical origin of any email anyways.

 

[audiosoft]

For all you computor geeks, please tell me how I can find out where an Email is coming from. Like the orgin of city, country. Thank You.

Follow instructions : **broken link removed**

 

[microcentillion]

Follow instructions : **broken link removed**

This only works if they sent the email from their computer via an email program like Thunderbird or Outlook. If they use the web interface to send mail, it only gives the IP of the service provider.

 

[powerox]

This only works if they sent the email from their computer via an email program like Thunderbird or Outlook. If they use the web interface to send mail, it only gives the IP of the service provider.

Exactly right! Now, if you have some "pull" you can quickly locate.



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