Tracking IPs in Google Apps/Gmail

Stats are wonderful thing.

Most email systems will track your stats for you to show where your incoming mail has originated from.  This is good if you want to reconcile your stats of visitors on your page or blog against inquiries on your contact form.  Users that were used to receiving this information via programs like Mail, Outlook or Entourage now have that same ability with Google Apps or Gmail.

To do so, click on the little triangle link next to “Reply” or “Reply all”.

Select “Show Original”

This will show you a separate window with a coded version of your email.  Look for “Received: from” that is the farthest down, closest to where the email message begins.  You will find the IP address there. 

Please note, this does not work with other gmail accounts. 

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