Sunday 7 June 2009

Find the sender IP address in Yahoo Mail


Now a days email becomes the very important part of our life. As the popularity increases its bas effects are also increased. Many people are used to harass some one using a media of emails. Receivers are not able to do any thing because he or she is not able to identify who is doing what!
BUT if you don’t know your email which you have received tells every thing about the sender. Means you can identify from which IP address you have received that particular mail. And from this IP you are able to find the relevant address/area of the sender . Set up is free and also not requires any special skill to set this!
Just follow the given steps:

1. 1st log in to your account.
2. now go to the folder/mail of which you want to check the IP address.
3. Open the mail.
4. now check the headers(Top Portion). If header is not visible than it has been sated to off. To on or to display the headers,
* Click on Options on the top-right corner
* In the Mail Options page, click on General Preferences
* Scroll down to Messages where you have the Headers option
* Make sure that Show all headers on incoming messages is selected
* Click on the Save button
* Go back to the mails and open that mail.
5. You should see similar headers like this:Yahoo! headers : nameLook for Received: from followed by the IP address between square brackets [ ]. Here, it is 220.55.238.209.That is be the IP address of the sender!
6. That’s it. You have got the IP address. 



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