Brett

Can you trace hotmail accounts. My mom received an annoymous email from someone on her dragon boat team, she was wondering who. Is there a way to find out?

imported_~ILLEST CIV~

LOL me i'm not technologically advanced in the ways of tracing....haha but why not try signing with a new account.....and adding that person......if they use MSN Messenger a lot...and get ur mom to talk to that annoymous person, pretending to be someone else...

shlammed

The only way you'd be able to trace it is to have Microsoft release that information to you (IP addresses logging into the account, etc.) Unless the address has a profile setup with the person's name on it.

Brett

^^doesn't sound very likely to me, and its highly unlikely they will be on msn. Oh well...

imported_t_dot_SiR

if there's no way to trace, the best way is attend a dragon boat team meeting and ask who has emailed her recently... i guess that is the best option you have....

Brett

I think the idea was to find out secretly, she is on a team of 70 women, it gets a little cattly sometimes.

punkindrublic

why not just reply to the email and ask?

also you can configure hotmail to show you the senders IP adress... you could at least find a general location with that

imported_Cablerat

Yahoo mail > Hotmail..

imported_loudsubz

specific ISP email is better than all

damn hotmail i never use that or yahoo or anything

just my rogers account

Roacho2

you can get information (IP?!) from the header... then you can do a trace on the address using a program like neotrace if you want a GUI...

shlammed

umm...the only thing you'll get by tracing the IP is the location of the ISP, not the location of the actual person. To get that information you'd need to see the ISP's records of who was using that IP at that certain time.

GinoLicious

There is a way to get the ip number of the comp. It is something like view source or something while u are in the e-mail... I think.