How to Trace email sender in Gmail

Have you ever received an email that looks like a threat to you. I have received a lot of times. Many times I have received emails from my own name to myself containing serious viruses and malwares. With Gmail you can trace anyone who is sending you such emails.

You wont be able to get the entire information of the sender, but you can get the IP and other details that are required to trace the sender. After tracing the senders IP address, you can take legal actions against him if you want.

Lets see how it is done

1. Open the fake email in gmail and on the right corner of your email viewer window Select the dropdown button next to reply.

2. Now select Show Original from the options

3. Now look for the client-ip information in the window and that is the IP of the email sender

Now you can use tools like GeoIP to get the exact information from where you got the email. (Note- The IP used in the post is just for example)