Finding IP address in Gmail

Finding IP address in Gmail

1. Log into your Gmail account with your username and password.
2. Open the mail.
3. To display the email headers,
   • Click on the inverted triangle beside Reply. Select Show Orginal.
4. You may copy the headers and use my IP address detection script to ease the process. Or if you want to manually find the IP address, proceed to 5.
5. Look for Received: from followed by the IP address between square brackets [ ].

   Received: from [69.138.30.1] by web31804.mail.mud.yahoo.com

6. If you find more than one Received: from patterns, select the last one.
7. Track the IP address of the sender

IP Address Detection Script

I wrote a Perl script to automate this task for you. All you have to do is select your email service and copy your email headers in the box below.
You may do one of the following:

• You can copy all the headers from your email and paste them here.
  In this case, the unnecessary headers (like Subject:) will be removed automatically.
• You can remove all headers except those beginning with
  • X-Originating-IP:
  • Received: