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Anyone try emailing with a tracking image?
by cozzyd 3y ago
Anyone try emailing with a tracking image?
- asveikau 3y agoI'm sure this guy is not checking his email after being exposed.
- jcranmer 3y agoNo need to bother with a tracking image. Just scour the message headers of any message sent in the past--there's decent chance there's a few more dates lurking in those headers, and even an IP address or two.
- dustyharddrive 3y agoHeaders have the IP address of their mail service.
- asveikau 3y agoYears ago they would include the IP of the end user. Gmail and hotmail stopped including that more than a decade ago. But they both used to. I think Gmail stopped this practice years ahead of Hotmail. I have a relative with mental health problems who lives on the street, and he sometimes writes me from public libraries -- kind of luckily for family members who are concerned about him, the webmail service he uses still includes that info in headers. So I usually know which public library he writes from.
- cozzyd 3y agoWhen I was a PhD student ips in header were a great way to see if professors I was working with were traveling or not...