Does a email using a hotmail address provide the sender ip?

Question

I have a header of a hotmail email, but do not know where to find the senders ip address. It is kind of like two emails, because the sender was answering my email when we were friends. This person became hostile and insulting in another chat after four years and I blocked him. I know he is in Greece, but he somehow has much information about me that I did not give him. I am trying to find info. about him, but I am sure he was not giving his real name, as I did not give him mine. He knows everything about me, even called my home number and I am in usa. I did not give him this info, but he said if one knows how to search they can find everything. I am not up todate on internet as I should be. I only saved the email from last month.

I am not talking about yahoo chat when I said a chat room.

No, I am not a child, I am an adult. I know he is really in Greece, because I used an email tracker with my last email to him. I had no idea he would start sounding crazy, acting jealous, we had been chatting at least four years. He suddenly called me vile names and told me he could hurt me. As I said, he is now blocked. I just wonder who was I really chatting with.

Answer 1

In the deail header section you will find the sender's ip at the bottom, one ip will be of Hotmail server (which is not required) and the other one should be from where he has mailed you. Check that.

Though there are places where you can get more details from an IP address. Go to www.easywhois.com and find more detail from the ip address there. Just check all his mails and their IP, whether they are coming from same place or not? If it is coming from same place then he is not surfing annonymously and you have some hope.

He may have got your phone no. and other details from several possible sources, a) your friends or someone common to both of you b) may have got details from your PC only while you were chatting. I read once that there are security concerns in some messengers.

I have also found more information on how email works and how to troubleshoot email related problems at http://tinyurl.com/nnv9f, it works.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I would contact the phone company and see if you can get his number blocked somehow. I would suggest that you change your identity on the net. Get a new screenname and email from a different source. Ip addresses change unless you have a static ip, so I doubt that hotmail attaches it, but there are a lot of ways hackers can get information and I'm not an expert. I would also change my im/surfing habits to try and avoid this person

Answer 4

Ok if you can find an option that says: Display all headers you may get an IP address, but it's probably not his. YOU have gotten yourself an Internet Stalker, and honey he may not be in Greece, he may be sitting outside of your house! You need to be very careful when corresponding to anyone, you should not exchange e-mails, I like to use programs that have an internal mail like the Court TV site, the mail is sent from one member to another without disclosing personal details (unless you tell them these things). You need to be running a firewall or (Gosh this is going to make me sound stupid, and in this field I really am)...a Proxy Shield, this type of program, will disguise you IP everytime you get online. I know you are going to get better answers than mine, and I WANT you to vote for someone who has REAL technical know how that gives you a solution to your problems in the future, as for this person....if he turned hostile via the internet then he may be zooey enough to turn hostile or try something with you in REAL LIFE. Are you young? Don't answer me here...but let your parents KNOW about the way this person has spoken to you and tell them that he knows where you are, who you are and that you think he may be a problem! You can't ever be too careful! Please consider that this person has tracked you down like he was hunting an animal! I have some pen pals but I also run a firewall on both my computer at home and the one at work, I do not know these people, and I do not tell them personal things that would make me easier to find...I tell everyone I live in Arizona, and I hate it...but I don't tell them my age, or the exact truth about WHERE in Arizona I live, the Internet Company that I use covers the Southwestern US, and I have seen what was supposed to be my "IP" on a blog tracking site, it says I am in New Mexico, so you just have to be careful get somebody to add a firewall to your computer, Zone Alarm is good, there are others...I know there is other techinical stuff that can help you, but at the same time, this other person is/has stalked you. Make whoever you live with or near aware of this and since you don't really know him, be careful because like I said he may not be in Greece at all! Have someone who is computer savvy try to track him (it's not likely that you will find him)...but then again, there's always a new hack or a way in the back door on many programs...You are going to need to run your computer with more "STUFF" running while you are on the Internet, but it will keep this from happening again.

Stay safe! Get close with a Geek that you know and like and keep the hotmail chances are you will not get anything useful from it, but then again who knows? If nothing else, change your ISP, and if you live alone get a big vicious dog! Good luck!

Answer 5

Hotmail address will not have the sender's IP address but the email servers that are being utilized to send the email.

For example, when I send my email from my hotmail account to my personal, I get a relay response like this (check details of the email or more options):

Received: from hotmail.com ([65.54.169.26]) by bay0-omc2-s7.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830);
Mon, 21 Aug 2006 06:48:19 -0700
Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC;
Mon, 21 Aug 2006 06:48:19 -0700
Message-ID:
Received: from 65.54.169.200 by by114fd.bay114.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP;
Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:48:17 GMT

As you could see, it is not the Sender IP but the email server

There are several things you could do to verify some information (but not a gurantee). Microsoft (MSN and Hotmail services) have multiple smtp servers and it is possible (unless they just have one primary portal) and see where it is coming from.

*** Note: This is not a guarantee and usually, forensic computer investigator could then get a warrany to see the remaining information from Microsoft's end ***

Look for the IP Address of the email server:
Global: 65.54.169.26
Specific Relay: 65.54.169.200

These are features out there but could be blocked by your ISP or Hotmail (for security). But You could try to trace the location of the email server (usually, email relay is at least one per country) or whois to see where the IP allotment is registered (and usually located)

You could do a tracert (inside command prompt : Start --> Run then cmd and press Enter)

Checking on my end, Microsoft will not let you look through them.
C:\Documents and Settings>tracert 65.54.169.26

Tracing route to bay114-f16.bay114.hotmail.com [65.54.169.26]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 * * * Request timed out.
2 12 ms 15 ms 19 ms 68-71-140-6-st.bflony.adelphia.net [68.71.140.6]

3 15 ms 16 ms 13 ms 68.65.14.141
4 14 ms 12 ms 12 ms 68-71-140-53-st.bflony.adelphia.net [68.71.140.5
3]
5 14 ms 13 ms 12 ms 68.168.225.1
6 76 ms 15 ms 19 ms a1-02-00-00.a0.buf00.adelphiacom.net [66.109.14.
61]
7 12 ms 22 ms 16 ms a1-01-00-00.c0.buf00.adelphiacom.net [66.109.1.3
7]
8 27 ms 53 ms 26 ms p3-00-01-00.c0.chi75.adelphiacom.net [66.109.0.2
17]
9 41 ms 37 ms 45 ms so-00-01-00.c1.dca91.adelphiacom.net [66.109.0.8
2]
10 45 ms 47 ms 48 ms p3-05-00-00.p0.dca90.adelphiacom.net [66.109.1.1
42]
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 gig1-3.was-76e-1a.ntwk.msn.net [207.46.44.5] reports: Destination net unre
achable.

Trace complete

Another tool is UNIX comman WHOIS:
This will normally tell where the IP Address is registered (and sometimes located)

Went to www.dslreports.com/whois
fwhois [e-mail]
[whois.arin.net]

OrgName: Microsoft Corp
OrgID: MSFT
Address: One Microsoft Way
City: Redmond
StateProv: WA
PostalCode: 98052
Country: US

NetRange: 65.52.0.0 - 65.55.255.255
CIDR: 65.52.0.0/14
NetName: MICROSOFT-1BLK
NetHandle: NET-65-52-0-0-1
Parent: NET-65-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Assignment
NameServer: NS1.MSFT.NET
NameServer: NS5.MSFT.NET
NameServer: NS2.MSFT.NET
NameServer: NS3.MSFT.NET
NameServer: NS4.MSFT.NET
Comment:
RegDate: 2001-02-14
Updated: 2004-12-09

RTechHandle: ZM23-ARIN
RTechName: Microsoft Corporation
RTechPhone: [phone]
RTechEmail: [e-mail]

OrgAbuseHandle: ABUSE231-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: Abuse
OrgAbusePhone: [phone]
OrgAbuseEmail: [e-mail]

OrgAbuseHandle: HOTMA-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: Hotmail Abuse
OrgAbusePhone: [phone]
OrgAbuseEmail: [e-mail]

OrgAbuseHandle: MSNAB-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: MSN ABUSE
OrgAbusePhone: [phone]
OrgAbuseEmail: [e-mail]

OrgNOCHandle: ZM23-ARIN
OrgNOCName: Microsoft Corporation
OrgNOCPhone: [phone]
OrgNOCEmail: [e-mail]

OrgTechHandle: MSFTP-ARIN
OrgTechName: MSFT-POC
OrgTechPhone: [phone]
OrgTechEmail: [e-mail]

The downfall is the IP address is registered in Washington and would not give much information about the relay.

Lastly, is to see if you could IP locate:
http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation

Attempted and could not get a result.. (Microsoft covers their network nodes and internet routers).

From this point, we could obtain information from Microsoft by requesting it for investigation or website that you chat to obtain information. But the information is on their end and that is what happens when you have services (3rd party for that services)

But since he is calling you, can't you get the Phone ID of caller through the telephone company?

Answer 6

The absolutely free reverse phone lookup sites generally provide the most basic of information such as name and it works only for landlines. To get further information, money will have to be paid. The free searches do not provide much more than what can be found through the phone book or personal knowledge and they only want your email to send spam. Stay away from shady reverse phone lookup sites, most likely you won't get any information after you make the payment. Not to mention you won't get a report and you won't get an answer if you try to call for a refund. Stick with a reputable reverse phone lookup site like ( http://reversephones.info ) that has been around since 1999. If I recall correctly they have two options: or you get only one report or for $39 you get unlimited reports. I went with this option because I wanted to verify more numbers. This is how I caught my girlfriend cheating, I got the name, other phone number, address history, relatives, and criminal-court records.

Answer 7

if use a e-mail provider like yahoo,hotmail,gmail or any other then the origin ip will be the server of the provider and not his/her personal IP this will only be the case if they have their own e-mail server running on the pc from which they r sending the mail... sorry, of course he could have found that information by using google and ur name or nick, try googlin urself and c if u find any info, another often used approach is to use a fake instant messenger account and just chat with u, pretending to be some1 else, get the needed info and then go on... and if he got ur real name, which u might use in ur instant messenger or in ur e-mail address, then it is not difficult to find out ur phone number using online resources...

Answer 8

Reverse Phone Number Look Up Services

Answer 9

This is a challenging question, and one that made me curious for a long time.

Answer 10

Never thought about it too much