How To Trace An Email?



Tracing email is the well known task of a hacker. If your learning hacking, then this skill must be in yourself. So keep reading this post for enhancing your knowledge.

Coming back to the post, we can trace Email using its header, as each email provider contains header.

1. In Gmail:
  • Click on down arrow near to Reply & click on Show original.
2. In Yahoo:
  • Go to Actions> Full Headers
  • Header Field consists of:

    • From: Email Address where the Email has come from.
    • To: Email Address of the destination.
    • Subject: Subject of the Email
    • Date: The Local Time of the server when the message was sent.
    • Bcc: Blind Carbon Copy
    • Cc: Carbon copy
    • Content-Type: Information about how the message has to be displayed, usually a MIME type
    • n-Reply-To: Message-ID of the message that this is a reply to.
    • Received: Tracking information generated by mail servers that have previously handled a message
    • References: Message-ID of the message that this is a reply to, and the message-id of this message
    • Reply-To: Address that should be used to reply to the sender.
Locate the IP address under Received: & then go to IP2Location for finding the address of the sender. In yahoo you can check it under X-Originating-IP.

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