Tutorial: Find IP Address of Sender in Yahoo Mail!

In my previous article, i had written about Finding IP Address of the sender in Gmail. Many readers have replied back to me to write about figuring the IP Address of sender in Yahoo Mail. In this tutorial, i shall be writing about the trick to get the IP Address of sender in Yahoo Mail.

Also Read: (Tutorial: Find the IP Address of sender in Gmail.)

The IP Addresses for all the sender mails are readily available in the header information. We have already discussed the way to track down the mails sent to Gmail. In order to get the information out from your Yahoo Mail, please follow the steps mentioned below.

For Users using New Yahoo Mail:

1. Login to your Yahoo mail and open the mail for which you wish to know the Sender.
2. Click on Compact Header/Standard Header, this presents a drop down menu. Select,Full Header from the drop down menu.
3. A window Pops up with the entire header details.
4. Look for the term Received: from [eg: Received: from 216.248.197.88 (EHLO mx1.info.brainbench.com) (216.248.197.88) ]. The IP Address mentioned is the sender IP Address.
   
5. Also importantly, there are times when you might find multiple Received: from entries, in that case, please select the last one as the valid choice.

For Users using Yahoo Mail Classic:

1. Login to your Yahoo mail and open the mail for which you wish to know the Sender.
2. If you do not see the headers above the mail, you need to enable them. In order to do so follow these steps:

• Click on Options link on the top-right corner.
• In the Mail Options page being displayed now, click on the link called General Preferences.
• Scroll down to Messages section where you have the Headers option.
• Make sure that Show all headers on incoming messages is selected.
• Click on the Save button.
• Go back to the inbox and open the mail for which you wish to know the sender’s IP.

3. You should now be able to see headers in the mail.

4. Look out for header with title Received. The IP Address is listed in the column (e.g. from 216.248.197.88).

Note: There are times when you might find multiple Received: from entries, in that case, please select the last one as the valid choice. If there are no instances of Received: from with the IP address, select the first IP address in X-Originating-IP.

Let me know if you have any doubts getting the IP Address.

Cheers,

Vaibhav