Users location from details in internet header

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Is there anyway to find the location of a user from there details in the internet header within an email they have sent me?
i.e. using the IP address or other such details?

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If using OUTLOOK, right the message and select “Options”, you will see the route getting to you.

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Outlook Express is basically the same.
Right click the email message>properties>details.

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And just for the curiosity of it, since I don’t use either, when you do that does it tell you the LOCATION of the IP address or simply the IP address?

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Depends on what you mean by the LOCATION, I suppose.
Here is a copy of a message details I received from my friends at Verizon, with my address Xd out.
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Received: from sacmail4.verizon.com ([192.76.84.42]) by vms169129.mailsrvcs.net
(Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006))
with ESMTP id for
xxxxx@verizon.net; Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:50:43 -0500 (CDT)
Received: from smtptpa3.verizon.com (smtptpa3.verizon.com [138.83.71.176])
by sacmail4.verizon.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m62MogLE021107 for
xxxxx@verizon.net>; Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:50:42 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from ftwintrmemf2.verizon.com
(ftwintrmemf2.verizon.com [138.83.131.184])
by smtptpa3.verizon.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m62Mogdt021521 for
xxxx@verizon.net>; Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:50:42 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from ftwintrmemf2.verizon.com (unknown [127.0.0.1])
by ftwintrmemf2.verizon.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 1D6AC528002
for xxxx@verizon.net>; Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:50:42 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from smtptpa.verizon.com (unknown [138.83.66.45])
by ftwintrmemf2.verizon.com (EMF) with ESMTP id E54D44E4002 for
xxxx@verizon.net>; Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:50:41 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from egbhipa1.verizon.com (egbhipa1.verizon.com [166.68.139.128])
by smtptpa.verizon.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m62MobTu015072 for
xxxx@verizon.net>; Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:50:41 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from [166.68.139.128] (HELO egbhipa1)
by egbhipa1.verizon.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.6)
with ESMTP id 75265571 for xxxx@verizon.net; Wed,
02 Jul 2008 18:50:39 -0400
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:50:39 -0400
From: customersupport@verizon.com
Subject: Re:Verizon.com Consumer email response
X-Originating-IP: [192.76.84.42]
To: xxxx@verizon.net
Message-id:
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain
Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
X-AuditID: 8a5383b8-a36bbbb000000647-ff-486c0641b3c9
X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA==
X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080701-0, 07/01/2008), Inbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean
X-MouseTrapID: 0000078
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Most of it doesn’t much to me but I suppose you could search the originating IP number?
Is it worth it? Who knows?

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OK. I thought you Outlook fanatics were getting something from the program(s) that I don’t get in Thunderbird, but that’s NOT the case. That’s a message header the same as I see if I check one in Thunderbird. The detective work is still up to YOU to do a “WHOIS” on an IP address to see if it tells you anything. The hard part, with all the routing and forwarding, is determining WHICH of the several IP addresses in there is worth a . AND, after you do all that analysis and WHOIS digging, the most you’re gonna learn is the owner of a block of IP addresses, usually an ISP or somebody big like that. Good luck to the OP on a worthless mission…

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Is there anyway to find the location of a user from there details in the internet header within an email they have sent me?

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[/indent]Not reliably. And certainly not any person who wishes to hide from you!

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> And certainly not any person who wishes to hide from you!

That is, anyone that knows How to Send an Anonymous Email Message via a remailer, such as SendAnonymousMail

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