We’ve all gotten spam emails and we’ve all gotten emails from people we know that look a little suspicious. And sometimes we’ve all gotten the same email over and over again from some malcontent whose determined to sell us something we don’t need and don’t want.
You’ve probably wondered where those emails came from. Sure, you can look at the email’s properties and try to analyze the email’s headers, but it can be like trying to negotiate a labyrinth maze.
We’ve found a online tool that can parse email headers and tell you where that email really came from. All you have to do is copy the email’s headers and pasted it into a form on a Web page. That’s it. The online parser will attempt to navigate the serpentine routing most spam and phishing emails use to get to your inbox.
If this sounds like something you could use, follow this link to IPTracker Online and maybe you’ll find out where those suspicious emails came from.
Sweet! Thank you! You two are rarity’s in
today’s microwave way of living per se society!
This tool is outstanding, and super useful, and
will be a plus to my arsenal. Thanks again.
just don’t open them…I don’t open anything unless I know who it’s from.
Umm, what’s this all about? To test this site, I searched the header from your email and this is what I got;
WARNING MESSAGE
No valid IP addresses could be found in the header you submitted.
If that is not the header, please tell me what is.
Here is the correct link:
http://www.iptrackeronline.com/header.php
Margaret, i do not know why you got what you
did because, when i put in the full header from
IE9 located at the bottom right side of the
page, i uncovered boo coo information about
CloudEight’s IP Address!
how is this site helpful?
It is helpful for those who know how to copy the headers of an email but don’t want to fool around tracing the routing back to its source. The site parses email headers and shows you where the email originated. You can’t rely on the “From” address to tell you where an email actually came from or who actually sent it. “From” addresses are easily forged.
This is so much easier and faster than going to properties, etc.
Great site – thanks you two!