Is it possible to trace an email back to a specific location?

[geeklight]

A friend of mine has been getting dodgy emails from an unfamiliar email address for a few months now, and although they're nasty and very specific to her and her family they aren't threatening, so the police won't do anything about it.

I was wondering if anyone knows whether it's possible to trace where it's been sent from as it's most likely an alias account, and for her peace of mind it would be really good to figure out who is actually sending them so she can put a stop to it. Not sure if it makes a difference but they're being sent to a tmobile instant email address on a blackberry.

 

[geeklight]

Haha yes I did think as I was posting it that it seemed a bit spy drama-ey! She's just a bit stressed out about it and I wanted to see if the combined power of the super geeks on this forum could come up with something useful!!!

I might ask her to try that Tetsujin, thanks.

And yep, the police have said they can't do anything unless something threatening is in the emails, but this person is being very carefully to not explicitly be threatening.