Rated 3 out of 5 stars

by Refuge Denied on Oct. 30, 2008 ·

This utility doesn't lookup the original sender's location, only the mail server's country.

For example (real example) - you receive email from typical Nigerian scam artist saying how rich he is and he needs your help to recover his money, blah, blah, blah.

This addon shows that his email address (in this case a yahoo.com address) is in the US. Of course yahoo.com is in the US ... it doesn't show the 'origin' of the sender in Africa like it claims to do though.

In this particular example you still need to lookup the final 'received from' field in the header for the originating IP (for this example it is 196.207.9.59, which is the actual sender's IP and that resolves to Nigeria - see here: loookup.com/196.207.9.59 - not a typo, 3 o's).

I am no coder so I have no idea how difficult it would be to implement actually looking up the country of 'origin' rather than the mx server's country.

3 stars because it is "nifty", -2 stars because it looks up the wrong information every time.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.3). 

by FrederikVds (Developer) on Nov. 3, 2008 ·

Hi,

Country Lookup normally uses the "from" value in the first Received header that contains such a value. So it should actually lookup the sender instead of the server. Could you maybe copy the headers of the mail that didn't work? If it doesn't work for multiple mails, maybe there is a mistake in the algorithm.

Thanks,
Frederik