How to Find Out an IP Address and Person's Geographical Location from Thunderbird E‐mail

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When we receive an e-mail there are cases when we want to know who the sender of the e-mail is if we can not recognize him/her. For example: it seems a good legitimate e-mail but you are not sure who this is from, and at the same time you are reluctant to delete it. Perhaps some of your friends added a new e-mail address and did not inform you about it. A good way to find out is to identify a sender geographical location. It takes a few small steps. Carefully follow this article's guide and you will learn how to find out a person's IP address and his geographical location using Thunderbird's e-mail headers. This article assumes that the Mozilla Thunderbird is installed on your computer and you use it as your e-mail service.

Steps

Open Thunderbird and find a toolbar on the top of the screen

Click on View... Headers ... All (shown on image)

Click on the e-mail in question to open a header of this e-mail

Find a string "X-Originating-IP" , highlight the IP address omitting brakes around it and - Press CTRL/C together to copy to the clipboard

Go to website http://spamid.servebeer.com:8081/spamid/index.jsp;jsessionid=EKJPDLDDLNOF Register for free as you may need this useful source in a future Log in Spam ID Click on the option "Real Time IP Locator" on the left menu (see image)

Place a cursor inside a little window and press CTRL/V together to paste an IP address Click on 'Where is it?' button

It takes a few minutes to search for a person's geo location and you see an information "Lockport New York United States".

This information gives you an idea where geographically the sender lives in.

The ultimate goal of this search is to determine whether it's someone you know and therefore you keep his e-mail, or it's a totally unknown sender and you delete his e-mail.