Reference number: CH000815
How can I find out another person's e-mail
address?
Question:
How can I find out another person's e-mail address?
Answer:In some situations, someone may lose their contacts or personal
address book, causing them to lose all the e-mail addresses of their
friends and family; you may lose contact with a person because they
changed e-mail addresses; or you may be trying to look up old friends
or people you knew in school or work to keep in touch with them. In
any case, locating someone's e-mail can be a difficult and sometimes
an impossible task with the amount of times many people change their
e-mail addresses and the lack of any real up-to-date directory
listing of e-mails on the Internet.
However, below are some of the different methods you can try when
attempting to locate another person's e-mail address.
Other Friends, family, co-workers
Saved e-mail
Websites, forums, blogs, and/or social networking
pages
Search for their real life name
Create a page or post stating that you're looking for
the person
Other Friends, family,
co-workers
One of the best methods of getting e-mail addresses is to contact other
friends, family, and/or co-workers, asking them if they know of the
person's e-mail address, and if they do, if they could forward that
address to you.
Saved e-mail
If you have any saved e-mails sent from the person,
CC'd to the person, or that you
have sent the person in the past, opening these e-mails will allow
you to view that person's e-mail address.
Websites, forums, blogs,
and/or social networking pages
Another great method of finding a person's e-mail address is to
locate their personal web page, blog (online journal), or other social networking page.
A listing of each of the popular and widely used social
networking sites can be found on our
social networking definition page.
Our recommendation is to start with Classmates if you're looking
for an e-mail address of someone you used to go to school with,
and/or MySpace, which is one of the most popular social networking
sites on the Internet.
A listing of popular and widely used blog and online journal
sites can be found on our weblog
dictionary definition page.
Search for their real
life name
If you know the person's full name, searching for that person may
pull up the person's work e-mail address, their home page, or
journal that contains contact information. Unfortunately, people
with non-unique names may be harder to find; however, below are some
different searches you could try in any popular
search engine.
In the below example, we will be searching for the name: Jane
Doe, simply replace that name with the name you're looking for.
Keep in mind that it's very unlikely that you'll find any e-mail
address if you don't know the person's full name.
"Jane Doe"
Simply searching for the person's name in quotes will pull up any
results that contain their full name. If the name is not a unique
name, you may pull too many results to go through; try adding
additional keywords as shown below.
"Jane Doe" Utah
"Jane Doe" Utah High School, College, or University
"Jane Doe" Utah work
Adding the state, school, and/or work in addition to your search
can help eliminate a lot of results and help locate a match if it
exists.
During your searches you may also pull up other contact
information such as the person's phone number or postal address,
which allow you to contact that person and ask them for their
e-mail address. Usually, it's easier to find a person's postal
address and/or phone number than attempting to find the person's
e-mail.
For example, you can find almost anyone's phone number and
address that is listed in a local listing by typing: Jane Doe Utah
in a Google search.
Keep in mind: Some people may change their name during
their lifetime; for example, a female may change her last name after
getting married. A person may also move out of state or country,
which also defeats the above search attempts.
Create a page stating
that you're looking for the person
If all else fails and you have no method of contacting the
person, create a web page that you're looking for the person and
your contact information of how to get a hold of you. Many people
will search for themselves on popular search engines and may
stumble across the page you created and contact you.
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