Email Tracking Tool
Reverse Email Lookup / Lookup IP Address / Trace Email to Sender
This tool attempts to locate the source IP address of an email based on the email headers. Just copy and paste the full headers of the email you've received into the box below and click "Track It". Then scroll down the page for the email header analysis and results.
How do I find email headers?
Choose from the following links for instructions on how to find email headers in various email clients and websites.
Email Clients
Apple Mail 2.x (Mac)
- Select the message you want to view the headers of.
- Press SHIFT-COMMAND-H to toggle full headers for the message. Alternatively you can click VIEW in the menu bar, click MESSAGE, click LONG HEADERS.
Apple Mail 2.x
Microsoft Outlook 2003 (Win)
- Select the message you want to view the headers of.
- Right click the mouse, select OPTIONS.
- Headers will be displayed within the "Internet Headers" area of a pop-up window.
Microsoft Outlook 2003
Mozilla Thunderbird 2.x
- Select the message you want to view the headers of.
- Press COMMAND-U (Mac) or CTRL-U (Win) or click VIEW from the menu bar and select MESSAGE SOURCE.
- Headers will be displayed in a new window.
Mozilla Thunderbird 2.x
Web Based Email
Google Mail (GMail)
- Open the message you want to view the headers of.
- Click the down arrow next to the "Reply" link.
- Select "Show Original" to open a new window with the full headers.
Google Mail (GMail)
Windows Live Hotmail (Full Version)
- This does not work with Safari on Mac OS X.
- Right click on the message (from the list of emails).
- Select "View Source".
- A new window with the full headers and HTML source of the email will open.
Windows Live Hotmail
Yahoo Mail ("New" Version)
- Right click on the message.
- Select "View Full Headers".
- A new window with the full headers will open.
Yahoo Mail ("Classic" Version)
- Click on the message.
- Click "Full Headers" on the bottom right of the screen.
Yahoo Mail
Return-path: <
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Received: from mac.com ([10.13.11.252])
by ms031.mac.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28
2007)) with ESMTP id <
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; Thu,
09 Aug 2007 04:24:50 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from mail.dsis.net (mail.dsis.net [70.183.59.5])
by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin22/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id l79BOnNS000101
for <
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>; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:24:49 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from [192.168.2.77] (70.183.59.6) by mail.dsis.net with ESMTP
(EIMS X 3.3.2) for <
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>; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:24:49 -0700
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:24:57 -0700
From: Frank Sender <
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Subject: Test
To: Joe User <
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Message-id: <
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MIME-version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2)
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2)
Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
View a sample email header
CAUTION: This email tracking tool assumes all mail servers and clients in the transmission path are trustworthy. It does not attempt to detect forged email headers. Forged headers are common in spam and other malicious email, therefore this tool cannot be relied upon to accurately identify the source of such messages.
