I received an email from my sister a while back. Since then she has not answered any of my other email. I have a feeling that she may be living homeless somewhere. I figured If I can trace her email to a public library's IP (which i suspect is where she's accessing the internet) I can start searching around the area to find her.
2006-10-12 12:38:19 · 4 answers · asked by Willie S 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
Forwarding information and the originating IP information can be found in the header of an email unless the email was somehow relayed by another email server.
Look at the header and find the originating IP and use a website like visual tracert to trace the location of the IP.
Good luck.
2006-10-12 12:43:21 · answer #1 · answered by cantankerous_bunch 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Yahoo Mail
Options
General Preferences
Scroll down and choose to display the "full header"
That will give you the information of the sender - though not the IP of the computer she used.
I don't think you can do anything about the old e-mails you have already downloaded from the server.
Have you visited her last known address?
Questioned people in the area, or where she last worked?
2006-10-12 19:41:09 · answer #2 · answered by TheHumbleOne 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Once you get the info from the header, you can try running a trace route on any domain names that you find. open a command line in windows xp by going to start menu, select run, type cmd in the empty field and hit enter, a dos window opens, then type "trcroute domain.com" and hit enter.
2006-10-12 19:45:03 · answer #3 · answered by micah 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
wouln't that be hacking unto a computer?
i know how to find it from my own computer but not someone else's over an e-mail
2006-10-12 19:41:04 · answer #4 · answered by sMiLeY #10 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋