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Monday, October 12, 2009

How from an email in M$ outlook do you get the IP range from where the message was sent?

Generally speaking this isn't possible without access to the log files on the email server that originated the message.





Consider: webmail (yahoo for example) follows this process:





User composes email, sends email to the email server that services their email account.





The server may or may not log the originating IP for the mail.





The mail server then routes the mail on to the destination server (this is a simplified example, sometimes mail hops servers a few times or even several times before getting to it's destination), where it is stored until retrieved by the recipient.





The email headers should contain address information for the originating server, and any servers that passed the email along, but since the original sender's IP has nothing to do with the mail transaction between servers, this information generally isn't captured in mail headers.





Hope this helps.
How from an email in M$ outlook do you get the IP range from where the message was sent?
Turn on the option that shows EMail headers.
Reply:If you right-click on the message in the Outlook window, then select "Options" you'll get a popup that has all the email header information there is, including IP addresses.
Reply:Look at the headers... I think if you open up an email, double-click it I mean, go to File or View and there should be something about Message Headers or View Source. Check one of those.

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