The growing usage of EMail tracking, such as YesWare, has me wondering ...

Years ago in the early years of email, I remember the address headings from senders has all kinds of information in them .. i.e. IP addresses, Machine ID, and other bit's and pieces. Although most of this was irrelevant to me, I sometimes did a "who is" or trace on the IP Address to see from where the message was originating.

These information packed headings seemed to have disappeared in recent years with the commercial online Email clients now in use (GMail, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc) .. although I am sure it's still there somewhere.

Which brings me to my question ....

Does anyone know if it possible to access this info in the address headings now-a-daze ... in Gmail or Hotmail for instance ? I've looked in the settings (GMail & Hotmail) but without success.

Think theres a link to view full headers. Otherwise you might be able to forward to a regular email address using a normal client like outlook and see them there

Thanks for the tip.

Actually I've found the answers to my questions already. Guess I should have spent more time searching the web before posting here ... apologies.

For anyone else who may be interested:-

For GMail

1. Log in to Gmail
2. Open the message you'd like to view headers for.
3. Click the down arrow next to Reply, at the top of the message pane.
4. Select Show Original.

For HotMail

1. Log in to your Hotmail account.
2. Select Inbox from the left-side menu.
3. Right-click the message you'd like to view headers for and select View Message Source

Once again sorry for posting an unnecessary question ... but maybe I've saved someone else a few mouse clicks.