Monday 18 November 2013

Your Outgoing Email Messages Leak Your IP Address? Find Out

When you send an email to somebody, the outgoing message might generally include the ip address of your computer that was used to send that message. The ip address is enclosed within the message header and, if available, it can help the recipient trace the approximate geographic location of the sender.

Not all email providers include the sender’s ip address in the outgoing email messages.

For instance, Gmail omits the sender’s ip address if you send mails through Gmail’s web site or through Gmail’s mobile apps but the ip address gets enclosed if you utilize a third-party program – like Microsoft Outlook or the Mail App on your iPhone – to send the message through your Gmail account. Outlook.com also hides the sender’s ip address whereas Yahoo Mail includes that data in the outgoing message headers.

If you would like to know if your email client is revealing your ip address to the recipients or not, you'll either send an email to yourself and look at the message headers however if that sounds alittle too technical, give emailipleak.com a try.

When you open the site in your browser, it find your computer’s ip address and creates a unique email address for you. needed required to send a blank message from your email client to that address. when the message arrives, the tool appearance for your ip address in the headers of the incoming message and alerts you if a match is found.

The site’s privacy policy says that it does not collect any user data and therefore the info is discarded immediately after any results pages are created.


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