In most cases, you can't.
If the user has used their email address a lot, sometimes you can find more clues about them by using a search engine like Google or Yahoo to see where else their email address appears on the internet and follow the trail like a detective.
If you have received and can read email headers, you can then do some detective work and parse out the IPs and possible origins on where the mail came from. Of course, if you did not get the original message nor know how to look up headers and do research on them, then see the first sentence above.
If you are trying to resolve a case where you are getting email abuse, then use the domain name of the email, and contact the service provider. for example, user@aol.com -- go to the domain which would be the AOL site and look up their 'terms of service' and there you can find information to complain about their user. Not all providers really seem to care since they get a lot of childish messages. So your message needs to include the evidence with full headers, web pages where copyright material is being abused (if that is part of the case), show the precise links, be concise and thorough.
2006-08-02 06:35:28
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answered by Cobangrrl 5
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