How To Trace an Email

Track any Email

As we know that Email is the electronic form of a mail. Just like ordinary mail, Email also have some path. It also have destination and source.  The one from which something is coming is known as sender and the one who get that something is known as receiver.

Generally, the path taken by an email while traveling from sender to receiver can be explained by following diagram.

Email path

 In the above diagram, it is clear that the message will go from sender to destination inbox. In between, there is a lot of servers and intermediates that helps mail to be transferred.

So here is the method of tracing the exact location from the email sent.I am showing the email tracing on yahoo here but gmail and other mail providing services have same concept.

Steps:

Step 1:

Open up your email account and click on your inbox.

Step 2: 

Now select any email that you want to trace.

Step 3:

After Opening scrool the mail at the end and in right corner you will see a option FULL HEADER click on it.

Step 4:

Now Closely Look at the the header you will find the whole detail that from which IP address it is sent.