Here’s a quick how-to guide on how you can track email to it’s originating location by figuring out the email’s IP address and looking it up. I have found this to be quite useful on many occasions for verification purposes since I receive lots of emails daily due to my blog. Tracking the IP address of an email sender does require looking at some technical details, so be ready to dig your heels in!

There are basically two steps involved in the process of tracking an email: find the IP address in the email header section and then look up the location of the IP address. Finding the IP address of an email sender in GMail, Yahoo Mail, and Outlook. Let’s go ahead and take a look at how you would do this for Google, Yahoo and Outlook since those are the most popular email clients. How to track the original location of an email via its IP address

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