isn't there a way u can find out people's IP addresses in an email? read on?

Question

ok well my friend has an email address and she said in am email "dont talk to rachel... shes annoying" and then i got an emial from "rachel" and she said "do you like katie?" and i just wanna know if it's the same person or different people because i think she wants to see if i like her.. idk.. iif there's a way can u please tell me... it dosnt matter if u dont know what i was talking about.. lol just please tell me

Answer 1

Most web-mail services embed the sender's IP address in the HEADERS. Here's one of the spam messages I'm getting

Received: from nlpi045.prodigy.net by fipprd05 with SMTP; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:11:58 -0700
X-Originating-IP: [216.54.194.73]
Received: from concord.bluehornet.com (aol.concord.bluehornet.com [216.54.194.73])
by nlpi045.prodigy.net (8.13.8 inb regex/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l9HMC52m021349
for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:12:05 -0500
Message-ID: <88.77.06468.A9886174@dc1bhmta03>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:07:17 -0700

See the X-Originating-IP line? Just remember, it CAN be faked, and it should only be trusted if you can verify the address and DNS settings.

Using my own tool (Sam Spade from SamSpade.net) I can verify that the IP address DOES indeed match up with the sending host, which is concord.bluehornet.com (which says so in the first "Received" line), so the sending is legitimate.

If both messages have the same originating IP address, good chance they're the same person.

Answer 2

What email service do you use?

The easiest way is to turn on all "Headers" in your email options. I can't really tell you exactly where that is unless you use Yahoo! mail, but look for an "Options" or "Mail Options" or "Preferences" button. Inside you may need to find a "General Preferences" or "Incoming Mail Option" button. Look for an option that says something like "Show all headers on incoming messages" and turn it on. Now, when you open these emails, it will show alot of information about who sent it along with IP address.

Good Luck.

Answer 3

This is a good guide:

http://aruljohn.com/info/howtofindipaddress/