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Uploaded by on Jun 10, 2009

A video guide on how to trace a hotmail

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  • @cseves

    Not exactly. The IP address will always be available. The question is what you do with IP address afterwards.

    If you are genuinely, and legally, trying to trace somebody you get a court order and get the address that was using the IP address as the time and who it was registered to - at the time it was being used.

    If its fixed, then you end up with the address that sent it from.

  • hey, my source code shows me unreadable letters, somybolds and numbers. I have tryied firefox, opera and safari but its dont work, can you find the location for me pls pls pls?

  • My hotmail won't let me view the source of any email. Is this because I have the free version?  Can anyone comment?

  • @gluepot66

    This is very very simple to test. Simply send your self an email, look at the IP addres in the header and then check your IP address. The address from the email will be your IP address.

    Sites like AOL, Google, etc, they provide you only with the servers email address.

    Its very simple how it works - every website you visit tracks your IP address, in this case the Hotmail site tracks it and sends it on.

  • @mrdojob

    To be fair the video actually states that "the map is more luck than judgement" and it should be "taken with a pinch of salt".

    The IP address is accurate though

  • @gluepot66

    The IP address shown is the IP address of the sender. In the case shown it was my actual IP address from my computer as I sent the email.

    Hotmail actually records the IP address of the user sending it and records it in the manner shown in the video. This is not true for other webmail systems and should not be confused with tracking email through the traditional methods.

  • @gluepot66 tell you what do. i will send you an email via hotmail an you tell me my ip address? i have no clue how this bullshit works

  • @whereisyourdata any chance you could be a little clearer? the ip shown on hotmail is what? u say it actually is that of the sender not just the server. 2me that reads as if you acknowledge the sender and the server are two different things and thus have two different ip addresses yet in the same sentence say that they both have the same ip! the u say 'that' is trapped by hotmail for tracking purposes? what is please? the sender ip, the server ip or the universal ip?

  • @gluepot66

    Just to clarify the IP address shown by Hotmail is actuall that of the sender, not just the server. That is trapped by hotmail for tracking purposes.

  • @gluepot66

    Just to clarify the IP address shown by Hotmail is actuall that of the sender, not just the server. That is trapped by hotmail for tracking purposes.

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