How can I trace where email came from?

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I found your information VERY useful. Thank you so much Leo for making this available.

I do have one question though - How do i trace the city location where someone sent a messege via blackberry. If someone is on roaming service then how does I figure the city in which the mail was sent from?

THANKS

I doubt that you can. It all depends on how your carrier assigns/uses IP addresses, and there's no requirement that it be city based. In any case, you'd have to try and figure it out with them.

Hi

I have question regarding BCC from an hotmail account. If BCC line is included in the header is it correct to say that the person who sent that email BCC'd someone else in on the email they sent me ?

Thanks

If the BCC line is present, but empty, it tells you nothing. You can make NO assumptions one way or another. There could have been BCC'ed recipients, or not.

If the BCC line is present, and has email addresses in it, that's a BUG in the sender's mailer - it should not be there. You can probably infer that the email addresses listed were BCC'ed, but CANNOT assume anything else. There could have been more BCC'ed. Or not.

If the BCC line is NOT present, you can assume nothing. There could have been BCC'ed recipients, or not.

Hi,

Thank you for your help on this. My girlfriend is currently being harrased and is being thretand from a fake Yahoo address. We have been to the police as there are many threats and things are getting very personal.

I have an e-mail address, jenniegarthuk@yahoo.co.uk, whats the best way in finding out the IP address to give to the police as they are being most unhelpful.

Thanks for your advice so far, it is much appreciated.

Regards

James

I need to know where an email I received came from. The ip information is as follows:[66.196.101.11]. The information in the received line is as follows: from 66.196.101.11 (HELO web59015.mail.re1.yahoo.com) (66.196.101.11) by mta173.mail.re3.yahoo.com with SMTP; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:46:40 -0800

Thanks for your help...I don't know how to read what it means. Thanks.

Someone sent it using Yahoo's web mail interface. That's all you can tell from that.

Dear Sir,
I need to find out who sent an email to me. They sent it to me before my wedding, telling me not to do it. They sent it via hotmail under a fake account and removed the account after sending the email. I still have the whole email and I am having trouble figuring out where it originated. Please help.

No way to find out that I know of.

Hi
Did you know there are private investigators that specialize in tracing emails? I was able to find out who my exwife was cheating with by visiting a website called emailrevealer.com.
I just gave them her screen name and they found s secret personals ad she had. Then I was albe to find her boyfriends email on her myspace page.
The detective foud her ad , the myspace account then located the guy she was cheating with.

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