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Finding IP address in Yahoo! Mail
1.First of all 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.On the top-right side of the mail page, there is a hyperlink that says Full Headers. Click on it.
5.If you see Brief Headers and not Full Headers, then ignore step 4, and jump to step 6.
6.Look at the headers that are now displayed above the message.
7.Read the Received: headers and search for IP addresses between square brackets like this [ ].
8.Look at the example below to understand exactly how to do it.
I want to find the IP address of my parents who sent me a mail to my Yahoo!Mail account.
Here, my parents' IP address is 203.197.21.54.
Finding IP address in Hotmail
1.First of all log into your Hotmail with your username and password
2.Click on Inbox or whichever folder you have stored your mail.
3.Open the mail.
3.If you do not see the headers in the mail, click on the Options hyperlink
4.After you are in the Options page, click on the Mail button and then on the Mail Display Settings hyperlink
5.You should see the Message Headers
6.Select Full and click on the Ok button.
7.Now go back to the mail.
8.Look at the headers that are now displayed above the message.
9.Read the Received: headers and search for IP addresses between square brackets like this [ ].
10.Look at the example below to understand exactly how to do it.
I mailed myself to my Hotmail account (which I actually never use!!).
Here, I find the originating IP address is 69.140.6.181. (The other IP address within square brackets 216.136.129.183 is not the originating IP; it is the IP of Yahoo's mail server)
1.First of all 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.On the top-right side of the mail page, there is a hyperlink that says Full Headers. Click on it.
5.If you see Brief Headers and not Full Headers, then ignore step 4, and jump to step 6.
6.Look at the headers that are now displayed above the message.
7.Read the Received: headers and search for IP addresses between square brackets like this [ ].
8.Look at the example below to understand exactly how to do it.
I want to find the IP address of my parents who sent me a mail to my Yahoo!Mail account.
Here, my parents' IP address is 203.197.21.54.
Finding IP address in Hotmail
1.First of all log into your Hotmail with your username and password
2.Click on Inbox or whichever folder you have stored your mail.
3.Open the mail.
3.If you do not see the headers in the mail, click on the Options hyperlink
4.After you are in the Options page, click on the Mail button and then on the Mail Display Settings hyperlink
5.You should see the Message Headers
6.Select Full and click on the Ok button.
7.Now go back to the mail.
8.Look at the headers that are now displayed above the message.
9.Read the Received: headers and search for IP addresses between square brackets like this [ ].
10.Look at the example below to understand exactly how to do it.
I mailed myself to my Hotmail account (which I actually never use!!).
Here, I find the originating IP address is 69.140.6.181. (The other IP address within square brackets 216.136.129.183 is not the originating IP; it is the IP of Yahoo's mail server)
