How to find IP address of sender of an e-mail

[Philly-Night-SR]

Hey computer people,

I need to find out what IP address our company sends from to see if we are on any blacklists. How do I find out what IP address we actually send from? Anyone know?

Steve

[driftingeric2k4]

Are you asking to find the IP address or how to find out if you are blacklisted?

For the first, you could do a trace route from a command prompt.

Start -> Run -> Type CMD in the box that appears.

at the prompt type

tracert www.google.com (or whatever)

you will get back all the "hops" a packet of data makes, starting from your machine ip address, then to your router (most likely) and then out into the great beyond.

[driftingeric2k4]

Oh, just realized you were wondering what email IP you send from. Tracert might not work for that.

This is what network admins are for, they should know it right off hand.

alternatively, if you have hotmail or something you can send an email from your corporate account to your free account and make sure on your free account you turn on the sender details. That gives you a ton of info about the originating sender.

[C'DALERIDER]

Hey computer people,

I need to find out what IP address our company sends from to see if we are on any blacklists. How do I find out what IP address we actually send from? Anyone know?

Steve

try this, i think it automaticaly id's you ip and tells you info, or you can enter a diff IP and get its info.
Im still pondering how to get someones IP from a hotmail or Yahoo acct. From what iv read, you need to send it to a outlook or other pop acct of youres that can 'find/read' the ip address, or something like that.
http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm
http://www.johnru.com/forum/read.php?2,9
http://www.johnru.com/active-whois/trace-email.html

[driftingeric2k4]

Another thing to consider - At our company, we dont black/whitelist addresses based on IPs. We do it based on domain name, so we would black list all addresses from @spammail.com and reserve the right to whitelist single addresses from that domain such as you@spammail.com. That is pretty much the industry standard.

[Scapegoat]

send me $1000, I'll do it. It's not exactly legal, and I can't promise anything

[Philly-Night-SR]

Thanks a lot guys... We blacklist based on domain as well. I have been able to figure out that our e-mails get sent from this address:

loyalrewards.targetx.com

But I am still not sure how to find out what IP address it actually comes from....anyone?

[driftingeric2k4]

Thanks a lot guys... We blacklist based on domain as well. I have been able to figure out that our e-mails get sent from this address:

loyalrewards.targetx.com

But I am still not sure how to find out what IP address it actually comes from....anyone?

pinging it gives me: 69.55.6.10 for that URL

EDIT: that is the 'real world' address, your internal IP may be different, but that is what the world goes by

[Honest_Bob]

Depends on if the email server is run in house or out of house. There are alot of diffrent possible configurations. Talking to your system admin will get your question answered fast.

[Philly-Night-SR]

It is "out of house". I just e-mailed the sys admin to find out. thanks for the help.

Steve

[C'DALERIDER]

id pay money to find out where an email generaly originated from. My situation is out of hand.

[driftingeric2k4]

id pay money to find out where an email generaly originated from. My situation is out of hand.

PM sent. No charge for services. Time to bring out the 1337 haxor??

[Scapegoat]

PM sent. No charge for services. Time to bring out the 1337 haxor??

:bigeek: you **** hole, you're supposed to under cut me by like $200 then we split the $800, cause I have no idea how to do it...damnit, play by the rules

[igo4bmx]

you can spoof mx and dns records and cause a variety of misleading screnarios FYI

[Philly-Night-SR]

interesting.... I am more interested in making sure our IP/domain arn't on any blacklists...

[deadline]

Hi,
If you receive a email from a sender ,you will receive more than the mail.The email comes with the header carry more information about the mail can tell you where it is sent from.If you want to finds the IP address of a mail you can find it from the Header of the mail or If you want to find the IP address of company like Google.com you can find it by doing a domain host search which is provided by the site IP-details.com (http://www.ip-details.com/domain-host-search/) .