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How To Find The IP Address Of Your Google Mail And Yahoo Mail?

About the importance of Email, it is in everyone’s knowledge the role it plays in our daily life. Imagine a world where there is no tool like Email. It would be horrifying and painstaking job to communicate what we do, presently with a simple click.

We all understand the utility factor attached to the Email. It is one of the fastest, reliable and personalized modes of communication. But it has been found very few understand the nuts and bolts of this communication. We merely compose, or attached what we want to communicate and send it. That’s what it has been found.

At this time when Email is progressively used for business and for many purposes, not to mention it is being used for phishing and other malicious intentions. It is of utmost priority to understand the other “messages” besides what has been sent or received by you.

Every email comes with a “Header” which is one part of an e-mail structure; call it DNA of the mail. It carries the basic fundamental information such as from whom the email comes, to whom it is addressed, date/time it was sent and the subject of the email. It is similar to an electronic postSeptemberk. Moreover, it also carries other detailed information which we usually don’t see.

This basic information comes in all brief/basic headers that most email programs automatically shows. This detail technical information can be viewed in a full header. All email programs can be set to show only brief header or full header and it is up to the users to set the program whether to view only “brief header” or “full header”.

Full header carries the information of the mail server’s name that the email passed through on its way to the recipient, and sender’s IP address and even the name of the email program and its version used.

Knowledge of this information is essential for analysis and investigation purposes on cases involving email abuse, spamming, harassment, forgeries and mail-bombing. It is worth mentioning, understanding of this tool would definitely help people to counter these attacks, and save themselves from unwarranted consequences. Well, this information could not be found in a brief header.

Here we will take the case of Google mail and Yahoo mail to find out the full header.

Google Mail.

Using your id/password, login to Gmail.

Open the mail for which you wish to find the full header of the sender.

Click on the inverted triangle placed just next to Reply.

You will get something like this…

Delivered-To: MrRakesh@gmail.com

Received: by 10.36.81.3 with SMTP id e3cs239nzb; Tue, 12 September 2007 15:11:47 -0800 (PST)

Return-Path:

Received: from mail.emailprovider.com (mail.emailprovider.com [111.111.11.111]) by mx.gmail.com with SMTP id h19si826631rnb.2007.03.12.15.11.46; Tue, 12 September 2007 15:11:47 -0800 (PST)

Message-ID:

Received: from [11.11.111.111] by mail.emailprovider.com via HTTP; Tue, 12 September 2007 15:11:45 PST

Date: Tue, 12 September 2007 15:11:45 -0800 (PST)

From: Mr Jones

Subject: Hello

To: Mr Rakesh

In the example, headers are added to the message three times:

1. When Mr. Jones composes the email

Date: Tue, 12 September 2007 15:11:45 -0800 (PST)

From: Mr Jones

Subject: Hello

To: Mr Rakesh

2. When the email is sent through the servers of Mr. Jones’ email provider, mail.emailprovider.com

Message-ID:

Received: from [11.11.111.111] by mail.emailprovider.com via HTTP; Tue, 12 September 2007 15:11:45 PST

3.When the message transfers from Mr. Jones’ email provider to Mr. Rakesh’s Gmail account

Delivered-To: MrRakesh@gmail.com

Received: by 10.36.81.3 with SMTP id e3cs239nzb;Tue, 12 September 2007 15:11:47 -0800 (PST)

Return-Path: MrJones@emailprovider.com

Received: from mail.emailprovider.com (mail.emailprovider.com [111.111.11.111]) by mx.gmail.com with SMTP id h19si826631rnb; Tue, 12 September 2007 15:11:47 -0800 (PST)

Below is a description of each section of the email header:

Delivered-To: MrRakesh@gmail.com

The email address the message will be delivered to.

Received: by 10.36.81.3 with SMTP id e3cs239nzb;

Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:11:47 -0800 (PST)

The time the message reached Gmail’s servers.

Return-Path:

The address from which the message was sent.

Received: from mail.emailprovider.com

(mail.emailprovider.com [111.111.11.111])

by mx.gmail.com with SMTP id h19si826631rnb.2005.03.29.15.11.46;

Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:11:47 -0800 (PST)

The message was received from mail.emailprovider.com, by a Gmail server on March 29, 2005 at approximately 3 pm.

Message-ID: 20050329231145.62086.mail@mail.emailprovider.com

A unique number assigned by mail.emailprovider.com to identify the message.

Received: from [11.11.111.111] by mail.emailprovider.com via HTTP;

Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:11:45 PST

Mr. Jones used an email composition program to write the message, and it was then received by the email servers of mail.emailprovider.com.

Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:11:45 -0800 (PST)

From: Mr Jones

Subject: Hello

To: Mr Rakesh

The date, sender, subject, and destination — Mr. Jones entered this information (except for the date) when he composed the email.

And for IP, look for Received:from followed by the IP within square brackets [ ] e.g.

Received: from [11.11.111.111] by mail.emailprovider.com via HTTP; Tue, 12

Also importantly, there are times when you might find multiple Received: from entries, in that case, please select the last one as the valid choice.

Yahoo Mail… Read

Project The Right Image–Starting With Your Email Address

Email addresses are just as important today as toll-free numbers were in the past.

Why? I would rather call 1-800-FLOWERS than 1-800-476-8874, for two reasons. First, it’s easier to remember. Second, and more importantly, the text version tells me that the company has put more of an effort into setting up their business. I think the same is true of email addresses. I would sooner email sales@flowers.com than flowers@rogers.com or flowers691@hotmail.com.

Many of you are still using rogers.com, sympatico.com, hotmail.com, and yahoo.ca addresses. My guess is that you’re doing so because you think you need a website in order to have your own domain name. Good news–this is not the case! Thanks to services provided by several companies, you can have your domain name and eat it too. (Ok, I know that was lame, but I’m sure you get the idea.)

While there are many ways to get a custom domain name (www.yourdomainname.com) without having a website, I’ll focus on two companies that, together, allow you to do this for about $10 a year. One you probably haven’t heard of: Godaddy. The other, I can say with absolute certainty, you have: Google. Need more than one email addresses? No problem. That same $10 dollars gets you up to 50 email addresses.

Now you’re probably asking: how do I do this?

Step 1: Visit http://www.godaddy.com and search for a domain name that suits you and your business. When you’ve found one, it costs roughly $10 per year to “own your piece of the internet” by registering the name. If you register the name for a longer period, you can save some money. If you’re looking to get a .ca domain name instead of a .com, email me and I’ll point you in the right direction.

Step 2: Visit http://www.google.com/a/ and sign up–for free–for Google Apps for Your Domain. Google Apps provides you with 50 email accounts for your domain name. You can access these email accounts using Google’s Gmail online interface, or you can use any email application on your PC or Mac. You can also set up a customizable start page, private-labelled Google Calendar, and Google Page Creator for your domain. This last one allows you to create a simple web page for your domain using a what-you-see-is-what-you-get design tool.

Did I mention all this will only cost you $10 A YEAR? You no longer have an excuse to use anything but your custom domain name email addresses.

And yes, I use Google Apps for my email.

Keywords – The Truest State of the Union Address

The internet’s Web Pro News published an insider report written by their own Jason Lee Miller on Friday September 1, 2006. The article entitled “My Space Drives More Traffic than MSN” noted that the latest top generic keyword searches in America are, lingerie, sex toys, Halloween costumes, auto parts, textbooks, shoes, furniture, cell phones, checks, and flowers. What does this say about what America is thinking about?

Keyword popularity lists change by the day and in some cases by the hour depending how specific you want to be. But sitting alone in perfect unfettered privacy tapping away on their keyboards Americans are unwittingly giving away their state of mind to search engine statisticians. Keyword reports say more about the American state of mind than any simple response elicited from the average Joe on the street by some news reporter.

Keywords are monitored largely to discover the buying habits of the American public but far more than that is easily ascertained. America’s morals, attitude and preoccupations are all easily garnered from keywords lists. Changes and swings in all of these areas can also be easily rendered and analyzed.

An example of how keywords show the American state of mind comes from the reports gathered right after the tragedy of 9/11. For the first time in over a decade the word “sex” dropped from the number one spot on the keyword popularity lists. Words pertaining to church, God, spirituality, politics, freedom and government went on the rise. Slowly and steadily these search terms began to erode and things are pretty much back to pre 9/11 type keyword searches.

As a writer I was amazed by what I found under some relatively well known writers forums, given out as good advice. Espoused was the idea that if you looked up the most popular keywords and only wrote articles around those at the top of the list you couldn’t fail. Here is a notion that is both true and false all at the same time. It is true that articles based on popular keywords will get more attention and that’s a win. But even with all that attention if a writer has failed to elucidate, enumerate or illuminate that for which he is called or driven to write about, he or she has truly failed. This of course is only one of a million ways for someone to achieve complete success at the same time they have miserably failed. Failure to notice the failure is clouded by success. The success is usually clouded by some secondary cause having little to do with writing. Usually that is one of the big three, money, fame or fortune.

Ok, if you’re selling a product on E-Bay or a website you do have to write an attractive and alluring description of that item. If you’re promoting a business venture you must advance it as highly profitable. Heck, if you are only selling hotdogs you must make them sound like the tastiest most pungent piggy palatability the world has ever bitten into. The only real difference between what you say about hot dogs and how you tell a story, report an event or make a point is that one is an advertisement the other is a piece of journalism. Perhaps it would be better to say that writing for business is miles apart from the business of writing.

Keywords may truly reflect America’s state of mind and thus the whole state of the union but who is noticing that? Sadly it is not those punching their keywords off to query the search engines. As a preacher of the entire gospel, message I could hardly refrain from thinking of some word from the Saviour that might address this mountain of often very foul and self indulgent verbiage floating around in the American psyche. It was not hard to come up with a few very pointed passages that address this deepening malady. I suppose some words in the following passages might even come up in a keyword search somewhere…here’s hoping.

And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: 1 Corinthians 2:4

For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. Matthew 12:37

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