Us my IP adress shows my correct location???

Question

My yahoo account shows my last activity is in mumbai where as I am in kolkata,in this situation if I send any mail whether my mail's header shows correct IP?I mean may I traceable by this IP?as per my knowledge IP adress shows the user's location so if my location shows that am not in kolkata is my IP adress reveal my original adress?I loke to give more information that I am using an android phobe and 3g data plan and using opera mini I send that mail...Please suggest me

Answer 1

There are 2 types of email. Web based email will not have the sender's IP, although the web browser's IP will be logged but that is not available to anyone but Yahoo personnel in log files. So this is your typical https://mail.yahoo.com.



Now yahoo does support smtp/pop. If you use an app that needs to send via smtp and receive by pop, then

it should record the full path in the header. So this is any application that does email (On a PC like thunderbird or Outlook). On a droid, don't know.



What yahoo tells you on location report is the IP that was used to login. It might be your ISP is in Kolkata and has registered the network as being there.

Answer 2

All emails are traceable to the original email sender. Only exception is if using some open SMTP proxy server (often used by spammers).

However, if using an email web service, like Yahoo, Gmail or Outlook mail, only the mail server IP is traceable in general. But, those email services do keep logs of your IP when you connected (logged in) and sent that email. It is just not traceable by the recipient in those cases.

Answer 3

Actually you can usually tell what IP e-mail came from if you know how to view full e-mail headers (most of which are hidden normally), even if using web mail to send or receive. You just need to know how to interpret it and that beyond a certain point it may be forged in spam to try to throw you off. So the only thing you can tell for certain is the IP it arrived from to a known mail server at your end. For example this is a portion of e-mail headers from healthcare.gov, but I changed my gmail username to "nobody" to keep spiders from harvesting my e-mail address:



Received: by 10.237.49.105 with SMTP id 96csp2389186qtg;

Tue, 29 Nov 2016 07:12:29 -0800 (PST)

X-Received: by 10.36.61.146 with SMTP id n140mr24151841itn.78.1480432349679;

Tue, 29 Nov 2016 07:12:29 -0800 (PST)

Return-Path:

Received: from mailer158013.service.govdelivery.com (mailer190197.service.govdelivery.com. [208.42.190.197])

by mx.google.com with ESMTP id z64si44504041iod.147.2016.11.29.07.12.29

for ;

Tue, 29 Nov 2016 07:12:29 -0800 (PST)

Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of [e-mail] designates 208.42.190.197 as permitted sender) client-ip=208.42.190.197;

Authentication-Results: mx.google.com;

dkim=pass header.i=@healthcare.gov;

spf=pass (google.com: domain of [e-mail] designates 208.42.190.197 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=[e-mail];

dmarc=pass (p=QUARANTINE dis=NONE) header.from=healthcare.gov

X-VirtualServer: Default-CMS, mailer158013.service.govdelivery.com, 172.24.0.13

X-VirtualServerGroup: Default-CMS



Any 10.x.x.x IP is a private IP, so those at the top are internal IP addresses at google. Google received it from 208.42.190.197. That server in turn received it from a virtual server on private IP address 172.24.0.13.



But it is unlikely that your IP would be able to track your actual physical address. For example if you traced my IP, you might think I was in a different city 20 miles (32 km) from where I actually am.

Answer 4

Your email IP address is the IP address of your email server. Which could be in America or China for all we know...