locating an anonymous sender of emails?

TwoShedsJackson

If a person wants to find out who is sending them emails of a personal nature, thru a hotmail account - is there anyway to track them down from the message itself.

The emails contain private personal details, but sender refuses to identify him/herself, but wishes to engage in correspondence.

Anyone any ideas on methods of finding out who this person might be?


[This message has been edited by Castor Troy (edited 08-06-2000).]

MiCr0

Return-path: <dmeagher@hotmail.com>
Envelope-to: dmeagher@eircom.net
Delivery-date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 15:14:44 +0100
Received: from f7.law4.hotmail.com ([216.33.149.7] helo=hotmail.com)
by mcclure.tinet.ie with smtp (Exim 2.05 #23)
id 130351-0001yk-00
for dmeagher@eircom.net; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 15:14:44 +0100
Received: (qmail 79738 invoked by uid 0); 8 Jun 2000 14:14:42 -0000
Message-ID: <20000608141442.79737.qmail@hotmail.com>
Received: from 194.106.157.202 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP;
Thu, 08 Jun 2000 07:14:42 PDT
X-Originating-IP: [194.106.157.202]
From: "David Meagher" <dmeagher@hotmail.com>
To: dmeagher@eircom.net
Subject: test
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 15:14:42 IST
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed


and from eircom.net

Return-path: <dmeagher@eircom.net>Envelope-to: dmeagher@eircom.net
Delivery-date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 12:28:53 +0100
Received: from dolph.eircom.net ([159.134.237.80] helo=webmail.eircom.net)
by brockman.tinet.ie with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #23) id 12zHXR-0002dV-00
for dmeagher@eircom.net; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 12:28:53 +0100
From: "David Meagher" <dmeagher@eircom.net>Reply-To: <dmeagher@eircom.net>
To: dmeagher@eircom.netSubject: (No subject)Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-asciiContent-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Originating-IP: 194.106.157.202
X-Mailer: Eircom Net CRC Webmail (http://www.eircom.net/)
Organization: Eircom Net (http://www.eircom.net/)
Message-Id: <E12zHXR-0002dV-00@brockman.tinet.ie>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 12:28:53 +0100


and then just use http://visualroute1.datametrics.co.uk/
to find out where they are, well sort of


[This message has been edited by MiCr0 (edited 08-06-2000).]

MiCr0

has anyone else noticed that the eircom servers are all named after simpsons charactors

Trojan

No.

PJ Hunt

methinks the esat ones come from the Addams family i.e. fester@ and slimey@

Ha Ha...someone gets paid for that....

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‡PJ‡

Stephen

Esat also use "wonka.esatclear.ie"

elbob

For some reason the Simpsons are pretty popular when naming servers. Planets come close, But here at work, all our clients are named after Simpsons characters and the servers are named after locations. eg. Leftorium...

MiCr0

castor did u ever find out who it was?

TwoShedsJackson

Yep the sender has been located and dealt with.