Computer Tricks and Secrets

Short answer: you can find clues about an email sender's origin in Gmail by viewing the full email headers ("Show original"), which reveal the sending servers and sometimes an originating IP address you can look up for an approximate location. It is useful for spotting scams, but it only gives a rough, often server-level location, not the sender's home address. Here is how, and what it can and cannot tell you. How to view the full headers Open the email in Gmail. Click the three-dot menu (More) at the top right of the message. Choose Show original . A new tab shows the raw email with all headers: From, Received (the server hops), SPF/DKIM results, and more. What the headers tell you Received lines: trace the path the email took through mail servers, read from bottom to top for the origin. Originating IP: sometimes present near the earliest Received line; you can look it up in an IP geolocation tool for an approximate region. SPF/DKIM/DMARC: whether...