Example: I send you a message from my @yahoo.com box. Can you turn the email header on for that message and trace back OR find out what my IP Address is? And by "email Header" I don't mean the "subject line".
2006-12-16 08:35:47 · 4 answers · asked by O S 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
No. That's because the header trail will lead from my server back to the yahoo server. And stop with the yahoo mail servers. Since the Yahoo servers don't also happen to be your personal computer, you're fine.
2006-12-16 08:40:15 · answer #1 · answered by csanon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've done it before. My gf had run off - gone homeless actually. She and I were exchanging emails, and I used the IP address to track her to the computers at the public library.
I walked up behind her when she was still working on her email and we hooked up again. And she came home.
So, again, yes one can track a person using the IP address - however, its not always so easy.
-dh
2006-12-16 08:41:26 · answer #2 · answered by delicateharmony 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The IP address gets resolved back to a Yahoo DNS entry.
2006-12-16 08:40:45 · answer #3 · answered by Shawn H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on how you connect to the internet...wireless...it just goes to whoevers IP you are on. Otherwise it is "grounded" as in it will trace it to the computer responsible for that network.
2006-12-16 08:44:56 · answer #4 · answered by ÐIESEŁ ÐUB 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋