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Unless you are a highly trained and experienced computer technician, or a self trained technician, you will not be able to do this. However, there *are* programs and methods of finding out who is tampering with email. Tampering with email is a criminal act, and I suggest you contact the business entity which hosts your account. What you can do is determined by the type of account it is, web based or client based.
Web based email applications are those you usually access via a web browser. Some web based email can be redirected into client based applications, if they are a certain type. Client based email is those which are accessed through programs installed on your computer, such as Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Mail, and now Windows Live Mail. There are other client based email applications too for other Operating Systems.
Web based email does not download your email onto your local hard disk, but store them on an outside Mail Server. For example, accounts with Yahoo! are on the Yahoo! Mail Servers. When you access your mail it isn’t really downloaded to your system, you view the mail inside your browser window just as you do with web pages. You can manually copy email on an Server Side email account onto your local hard disk, but that is a choice, not a requirement.
Client based email accounts download and store all your mail on your local hard disk. You can access your mail at any time and do not need to worry about having any of it deleted after a period of time, or having your account deleted after a period of inactivity, as you do with most major web based accounts.
Both types have their plusses and minuses. Web based email does not legally belong to the user, but to the company who hosts the account and store the mail on their company owned servers and hard disks. On the plus side, you do not clutter up your own hard disk with the mail, you can access it from any computer any where in the world, while traveling etc. In addition, web based accounts have anti-virus and anti-malware automatically scan incoming and outgoing mail, and scan each downloaded attachment before allowing it to be stored on your local hard disk. However, you have to worry that email might be deleted from those servers, and if you read the TOS-Terms Of Service, it will state that the company hosting the account can delete any mail at their descretion without even notifying the user before hand.
Client based email is stored on the local account, it is therefore more secure, police or other law inforcement must possess a search warrant to access your hard disk, and anything on it, you never need be concerned over some third party deleting your emails, and with a installed security product you can scan for any viruses which might arrive via email and attachments. The major downside of client based mail is that you cannot access it while traveling, unless you forward it to an web based account, which is not very simple or easy. The best of both is with Windows Live Mail, and Hotmail.
I provided this explanation of the differences between the two types of email because it matters which type it is when considering your options. If it is client based, not your work account, then your only option, (unless you have the experience and tools required to hunt down the offender) is report your suspicions to your local authorities. Most towns and cities have a department which has police to investigate Internet and Online crime.
If it is web based your options increase. You can contact your local police department or sherrif, and contact the business entity which hosts your account. Use the Help resources to locate the Contact Customer Server or Customer Care, however it is described for your email host, and inform them you believe somebody has hacked your account. They will then investigate your concern and if they find it true, locate the individual who did this and if that individual has accounts with the company will most likely delete all of them as a consequence of actions, and report them to the local authorities for whatever charges this type of illegal actions provided under the law.
Depending upon the severity of the offense, this individual could even be arrested and charged.
If it is client based your options are a bit more limited. This is another negative on the client based email applications. Unless it is a part of an organizations email program, your hands are pretty much tied behind your back, and the hacker probably knows exactly what s/he is doing and what legal issues may arise. Most hackers are good at covering their tracks, and the authorities while wanting to stop this type of personal attack, have limited resources and must use them wisely. Using their resources wisely means only going after offenders they believe they have an easy ability to capture in the act and not only charge the individual, but obtain an conviction in court.
I know this sounds a bit skewed and unfair, that an attacker could based what s/he hacks by the degree of legal issues which could arise, but that is just how it goes. When you have the backing of a large organization they can use their own wealth of resources to track down offenders, gather information and evidence, and if the offense is great enough report to the police or FBI, and proceed with legal actions.
I do encourage you to report this. If somebody is hacking into your account you need to stop him or her, and throw as much legal or other consequences onto that individual as you can. When people think they get away with these types of crimes it only encourges them to do it again, and in ever increasing offenses. We have a right to our privacy and for our data stored on whatever hard disk it is on, kept private and out of the hands of those not authorized access. If it is Yahoo, Yahoo will want to know about this. It is in the TOS that we will report any unauthorized access to Yahoo! immediantly, even if we only suspect it is occuring.
I am sorry your account has been hacked. That is a personal violation, and it is wrong. That is like somebody going into your home office and riffling through your private documents. It is an horrible feeling when we walk into our home and find out things have been tampered with.
Good luck and much success catching and making this person pay some sort of repurcussion for his/her actions. Please have as nice a day as possible under the circumstances.

well it depend where u are hosting ? If u have a private hosting install a firewall and a IDS which will help u track down the person , but if the e-mail server is hosted elsewhere u can’t except if your login time is posted if it is the same as your login time then it’s k if not call the cops.