How to find IP address of sender from incoming email in Outlook?

Author: Kelly Last Modified: 2025-04-08

Let’s say you receive an email from an unknown sender in Outlook, and you want to find out this sender’s IP address, how could you deal with it? This article will introduce the way to find out the IP address of a sender from an incoming email in Outlook.

Find IP address of sender from incoming email in Outlook
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Find IP address of sender from incoming email in Outlook

To find a sender’s IP address from an incoming email in Outlook, please do as follows:

1. Double click to open the specified email whose sender’s IP address you will find.

2. In the "Message" window, click the anchor in the "Tags" group on the "Message" tab to open the Properties dialog box. See screenshot:

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Note: You can also open the Properties dialog box by clicking "File" > "Info" > "Properties".

3. In the Properties dialog box, go to the "Internet headers" section, find the "X-Originating-IP" field, and you will get the sender’s IP address as shown below.

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Note: In some spam messages, you may not find the "X-Originating-IP" field in the "Internet headers" section directly. In this case, please proceed with the following steps.

4. Place your cursor in the Internet headers section, press "Ctrl" + "A" to select all header information, and then press "Ctrl" + "C" to copy.

5. Create a new Word document, and press "Ctrl" + "V" to paste the header information.

Now look for the IP address enclosed in brackets. It is usually found after the "Received" field, as shown in the screenshot below.

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1. Select the email whose sender IP address you need to get, and click "Kutools Plus" > "Message Header Analyzer".

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2. In the Message Header Analyzer dialog, go to the "Source data" tab, scroll to the "Received-SPF" section, and you will get the sender IP address. See screenshot: