the email header has the IP address of the machine that sent the message. you would still need a court order to get the contact info from the ISP though
Received: from [x.x.x.x] by web41205.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 30 May 2003 09:49:19 PDT -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 10:04 AM To: steve baker Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Distressing, possibly life threatening emails from free accounts (yahoo, hotmail Unfortunately there isn't a clear way to do this since Yahoo is the middle guy and the mail headers were generated there. We recently had a similar e-mail come in and we spoke to Yahoo directly. While they were sympathetic to the situation, they stated some sort of Court Order or Law Enforcement involvment would be required for them to give out information. Ken Hayes Network Administrator Eastbay / Footlocker.com Wausau, WI Offices (715) 261-9573 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |---------+---------------------------> | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "steve baker" | | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | om> | | | | | | 05/27/2003 11:38 AM | | | | |---------+---------------------------> >----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | | | | |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |cc: | |Subject: Distressing, possibly life threatening emails from free accounts (yahoo, hotmail | | | >----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| One of our users has received questionable and possibly life threatening emails from a yahoo account that was created recently. They have approached us to find out as much as we can pertaining to the person sending it. Of course, we are not YAHOO so we cannot determine anything about the mail other than the content. How can we find out who sent this? _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
