If I send an email from hotmail on my personal computer, can the receiver, if he or she is very good at computers, work out where in the world it was sent from and from which number?
2006-09-20 23:10:16 · 3 answers · asked by flick flack 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
Yes, each email has a unique identified to track where it came from. Its known as the Message-ID and looks something like this:
Message-ID:
However, that person would need to contact your email hosting service and ask for the log files to know who sent it. This is not data that companies give out easily (for obvious privacy reasons), unless you're the CIA or the FBI...
Not that your company name is in the Message-ID parameter. If you send your email from Yahoo or Hotmail, you'll be pretty anonymous. But if you send it from a company mail server, you'll be easier to track...
2006-09-21 01:55:03 · answer #1 · answered by Bernz 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would take a lot of knowledge, but I expect governments can do it.
2006-09-20 23:18:28 · answer #2 · answered by cooperman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
one can track it
2006-09-20 23:18:16 · answer #3 · answered by dreamsunltd 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋