Tracing emails

[harryt]

For all you IT boys/girls out there.

How do I find out if emails are being sent from the same computer?

Being hassled by a nutter on Ebay who is sending me emails using 2 different Ebay ID's. Looks like he is logging on through dial-up and possibly using 2 different computers in the same house.

Any easy way to check this?

[lunarscope]

Try posting in "Computers and Stuff".

[IvIark]

harryt said:

For all you IT boys/girls out there. How do I find out if emails are being sent from the same computer? Being hassled by a nutter on Ebay who is sending me emails using 2 different Ebay ID's. Looks like he is logging on through dial-up and possibly using 2 different computers in the same house. Any easy way to check this?

You need to view the full header information which should tell you the route the email took to get to you. Is yours an Outlook type email account or web based?

[Bee_Jay]

I am sure this thread will mysteriously move in a second, but it may be quite difficult - if they are dial-up they will get a different IP every time, and if they are on broadband they will come from the same IP - the host name should be in the SMTP header.

[philthy]

Right click the email, click properties, then click the details tab, then have a look at the email headers "loads of characters and numbers". If your familiar with ip addresses, and mail protocols, all the info you want should be there.

Phil

[harryt]

Sorry if I posted in the wrong place. I don't know how to move the thread.

I have 2 emails, each supposedly from each one of the two different people with exactly the same IP number in the received from header. This is from 'imo-d22.mx.aol.com'. Sent on different days. Is this conclusive?

[slinky]

harryt said:

Sorry if I posted in the wrong place. I don't know how to move the thread. I have 2 emails, each supposedly from each one of the two different people with exactly the same IP number in the received from header. This is from 'imo-d22.mx.aol.com'. Sent on different days. Is this conclusive?

This is more than likely just a "mail exchange"...

The only real way of tracing it would be with AOL's assistance, and I'm afraid they're not going to give that to you, not to trace the user anyway.. What you can do, however, is contact the abuse team @ AOL (I'm sure they have one) and report the user..

They should then be able to investigate what's going on and deal with it correctly..

hth,

slinky