Is there a way to trace where an Email originated?
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Thank you both. I will investigate when I get home tonight.
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10 is also used a lot by colleges in the dorms, 192 is limited to 253 users so does not work well in larger networks.
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I had a smilar problem months ago - someone sending me some nasty emails.
1) So I found the orginal IP address, in the nasty email header. ex: xx.xxx.182.246
I guess by now you do have the...
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So... were you able to track down, where that email orginated from?
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Ok, so now I have an IP address but it starts with 10. which apparently is a private IP address, so who would have addresses begining with 10. ? Normally 192. addresses are one which are used in home...
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10.0.0.1 are used in home networks as well. My netgear uses 10.0.0.x instead of 192
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Not with CIDR
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In gmail, if you click on the arrow on the "reply" button, and then click view original, it gives you a ton of information. I'm sure the IP or other relevant info are included in there.
EDIT:...
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Actually 192.168.0.0 is the full range, which contains about 65k addresses. Plenty for most businesses, but many opt for the 10.0.0.0 range instead because the 192.168 range is used in many...
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Thanks guys. But I am surprised that the Email header does not track the IP that was assigned by the ISP of the email sender.
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CIDR, bitches!
But, yeah, just paste the headers here.
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but...but...what if their email had been h@x0r3d?
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How many IPs are you looking at? There should be more IPs that are not of the type 10.x.x.x
Not sure if gmail gives the specific ip where email came from.
Yahoo Mail does.
try this....
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Is there a way to trace an email sent using gmail to be tracked back to where it originated from. I read somewhere that the full email header may contain information that might be able to use to...
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Yup, click that little down arrow and choose "show original" to get the complete header info.
This can SOMETIMES allow you to trace it back to an ISP, but it depends on what kind of security...
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That is "Handy":nod:
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I would also look at the mail server name over the ip. I bet the server name is used in place of an ip in many spots you are looking.
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No unfortunately not. I will consider posting the header in this thread in case someone can figure it out.
