Every email you receive or send accompany informational email-headers which can be used to trace its originating location and the path it took to reach you, these headers come handy when you want to track the geographical location of the sender or want to report abused IP addresses of Spam or Scam emails.

If you are a computer savvy user you can view the email-headers and trace the IP location manually but there exist easy to use automated software utilities which gets the job done without any hassle, one such leading software is eMailTrackerPro which costs $29.95 USD to buy but for a limited time you can grab a fully-functional free license key of this utility and start tracking your email originating location.

At times you may need to get hold of full email headers of an email, usually most email services provide easy methods to view them but Gmail is a bit tricky and finding the right option is not very intuitive, to view full email headers use the method described below:

1. Open the email from your Gmail account.
2. Use the reply drop-down menu to access "Show Original" as shown below.
   
   
3. A new window with full email headers will launch.