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Can we know the location of email sender?

Mar.08, 2010 in Programming & Design

Hi guys! I have received two emails from @gmail.com AND @hotmail.com on my University’s email account for which I use Microsoft Outlook. Is there any way that I can find the location of these senders? (Atleast the country of sender)?
Thanks.

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Tags: Email Account, Email Sender, Microsoft, Microsoft Outlook

One Comment on “Can we know the location of email sender?”

I R Sonajiso
March 9th, 2010 at 11:52 pm
Not reliably, No. You can’t even tell reliably if the originating host was spoofed or not. On top of all this, the internet was designed to be untraceable.

But, you could try running “whois” on the originating/itermediate SMTP server’s IP/host. However, if the mail is spam/scam it likely originated from some infected machine that has nothing to do with the sender.

I would not waste too much time on this.

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