Can someone get your IP address from emailing them?

Question

Can someone get your IP address from emailing them?

Answer 1

Sure they can. You have free email tracers where you can find IP address from any received email:

http://www.ipaddresslocation.org/email-tracking/email-header.php

http://www.find-ip-address.org/email-search/find-email.php





I hope this helps!

Answer 2

Unlikely...but they can (if they know what they're doing) get it from your use of your e-mail client.



However, if they do *that*, they're open for Federal Hacking Charges... :D

Answer 3

Potentially.

Answer 4

They can see the ip address of the e-mail server that you used to access the e-mail, but not yours.



So for example if you use Hotmail, the person will only see an ip address from the hotmail e-mail server, but not yours.



Update: ok, then in your case they person who reads the e-mail header will only see an ip address going to one of google's gmail mail server. But it will not have your ip address in it.

Answer 5

This is, in fact, a very good question. People should think about security more.



Yes, but it depends what e-mail service you're using. A very few services don't publish your original IP address. The ones that don't (that I know of) are listed here: http://419.freehostia.com/?node=webmail



If you know how to get the header of an e-mail message, you can usually paste it here http://headertool.apelord.com/ and it will tell you what the original IP address is *AND* what city that IP address is. Here's an example, using the header from a message sent to me by my sister in law:



Delivered-To: [e-mail]

Received: by 10.229.214.83 with SMTP id gz19cs88555qcb;

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:09:08 -0700 (PDT)

Received: by 10.229.189.212 with SMTP id df20mr1513599qcb.21.1271455748257;

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:09:08 -0700 (PDT)

Return-Path:

Received: from forward.a.hostedemail.com (forward.a.hostedemail.com [216.40.42.17])

by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 34si4933123qyk.89.2010.04.16.15.09.07;

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:09:07 -0700 (PDT)

Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 216.40.42.17 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of [e-mail]) client-ip=216.40.42.17;

Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 216.40.42.17 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of [e-mail]) smtp.mail=[e-mail]; dkim=pass (test mode) header.i=@yahoo.com

Received: from smtpin01.hostedemail.com (smtpin01.a.tucows.com [10.5.16.1])

by ofarelay03.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 7DC6D4609BC

for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:09:06 +0000 (UTC)

X-Forwarded-For: [e-mail] by Hostedemail

Delivered-To: [e-mail]

X-FDA: 63459103092.01

X-Panda: scanned!

X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 15974

Received: from web52803.mail.re2.yahoo.com (web52803.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.48.246])

by imf21.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with SMTP

for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:09:05 +0000 (UTC)

Received: (qmail 65697 invoked by uid 60001); 16 Apr 2010 22:09:05 -0000

DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1271455745; bh=X4/xYTVsub3uCgLLQer5Ayzi5JY2qAvZOYpgeSKhFzA=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=zB6Ijwc+kBx3SCB884qaRdSYHJYdGHT0+6xBRQZOA/DmwwxrBbmJ+vMOKLidQDnTn7xz5je3XdrFgYp4JfAGM0wS0ia1YbIqzUuOquE6FuYzL9JVzqFu/mtofLxIRFk17hOoxwjWB6+65WbORc07NWKi5wmUArcDM5I5mWCFO9w=

DomainKey-Signature:a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws;

s=s1024; d=yahoo.com;

h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type;

b=UuVORXFTNoT/eh8wy8GT0LEOmFHjFIUjhqTEnsRljica0LW1oztW0cHC06Her5x8IDcAoejuht+QhzWSTGZwkXmuAc8MZX0mWomNvxG66rKgPIzQBd5p7vYMnHKfES6JYOYdRWaT3TBv/gJPivhaR+QVaVHo7wEXvalv1foTp68=;

Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

X-YMail-OSG: WJa_LRUVM1kTdU1VVSz_8Ek_0tBVWGxBW9zFSU1vI_jd4ms

v7iu.rGZX2GypfP23afdF1MOBbqpj7bi06OTPV4MaOSQedKwfS5ClzL_xUwq

3M1lNUc1G9k.g_uPDcdPjrPIqW5CGJSHECeg4Kxug1oIk5oyllUhHRphOGiU

YMTzJ5Mv6HuUA6fnnNs0FsikS51QmOKhVU4WkMRzXPqF6Ax3MErKxal5M9k.

Bkkn2uTOL6CDo19rzsl3ZAcysP.zoV6bgOa9nDBfCqe4_P5qlKxNeo7Vlk.3

aribot6QyK8AQ5hCP5_ej18bm4IgQSHWOmuJhcoSPVkv5x77v6ilE3p4n2pf

suw--

Received: from [206.174.124.47] by web52803.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:09:05 PDT

X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/10.1.9 YahooMailWebService/0.8.100.260964

Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:09:05 -0700 (PDT)

From: Dana Smith

Subject: Re: Why civil service isn't all peaches and cream

To: "R. Toby Smith"

In-Reply-To:

MIME-Version: 1.0



In this case, the header tool correctly identifies her IP address as 206.174.124.47 in Juneau, Alaska.