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Your IP has nothing to do with your email address. However, it might be possible for someone with the proper skills to determine the IP that a particular email was sent from.
Think about what information is in your email address: a name/login which you choose and the email provider which has nothing to do with you personally, and is probably used by millions of people all around the world. For example, Joeblow@fakemail.com. What part of that would be tied to your IP? It's like asking if someone can know your home address by knowing your birthday.
That is why the OP really needs to put a context around their question.
It rarely is so simple a question (though it may well be).
The average person like a boyfriend could not. But there are people who could get your IP address even without your email address.
Sorry, but generally not true if they have received email from you, unless sent from a web interface.
Email contains a normally-hidden list of "Received" headers that show the path that the mail has taken, and these include IP addresses. You can see these in Apple Mail on a selected message using View > Message > Raw Source.
I just looked through an email and it showed the outgoing IP address and incoming IP address in the Raw Source (I thought I'd seen that info before BUT forgot how to get there)
Thanks for posting that.
But receiving an email is not what the OP's question was about.
OP wanted to know if their IP address could be gleaned from knowing their email address.
Depending how powerful they are, yes. They can subpoena Google for the login IP of your email address. Would have to be something beyond civil court.
As long as you don't send them an email or reply to an email he sends you they won't get your IP address and you should be alright. Barring any court orders of course.
