is very small and you have to scroll a lot, so it's best to simply copy and paste the text into Notepad to view it more easily. Tracking the location of an IP address Now that we have our originating IP address of 72.204.154.191, let's find out where that is! You can do this by perform a location lookup on the IP address. My favorites are IP2Location and GeoBytes IP Locator . GeoBytes gave me a big map of New Orleans, LA along with a bunch of other information about the location itself. IP2Location also gave me the same information pretty much, including the ISP (Cox Communications). Of course, this is correct since I live in New Orleans! If you want more information, you can do a WHOIS database search also. My favorite one is the Network Solutions . This will give you information on who hosts that IP address and their registration information. You can always contact them to try and find more information on that particular IP address. Have fun tracking down those emails! Questions, comments, or suggestions? Post a comment! but thats only if the sender used a mail client on his own computer. if the sender uses gmail.com web interface to send the mail, u'll just see googles server in the "recieved: from" section. not useful! I agree it's not useful if the email is sent from Gmail via a web browser. However, there are tons of people who send emails from their office computers (Outlook,