I am trying to find out who has sent me an abusive email using a pseudonym.
David Bosworth
Every email comes with headers which, although nowadays usually hidden, include details of where it started and how it got to you. The first problem is to find the originating IP (internet protocol) address, which will be four groups of numbers separated by dots. A search for "How to read email headers" will bring up lots of sites that will help you do this. Next, go to a Whois site such as Domain Tools and paste in the IP address to find out who owns it. The Whois record tells you who to contact about abuse. However, mail headers can be forged, and you are not likely to get very far unless you have a strong legal argument, or whatever. Even then, an email might have been sent from an internet café or another hard-to-track source.
