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How do I view the "details of internet headers" for a single email in Outlook 2003? I know how to do this in Outlook Express, but can't find it in Outlook. Most email clients try to save you from having to look at all the bookkeeping information that accompanies each email message. There's a bunch of information with each message that you normally don't see, typically called the "email headers". But what if you want to see them? First, let's look at what we mean by mail headers. Here's an example:
Now headers on any given message may look a lot different. It may be longer or shorter, or have additional information, or less. But the basic idea is that there's a lot of information in the headers that has to do with the administration of getting the email from the sender to the receiver. Most email clients hide all that and show you only the stuff you care about: "To:", "From:", "Subject:", date and time, that kind of thing. It's rare that you actually need to see everything else. To actually view the mail headers of a message, the steps are naturally different for each mail client. In Outlook: right-click on the message in the message list:
Click on Options, and you should see a dialog box similar to this:
The section labeled "Internet headers:" contains the full internet headers for the message. Unfortunately it's almost always too small to show them completely. While you can scroll up and down within that box, I find it easier to copy them to notepad to view. Click in the headers, type Ctrl+A, followed by Ctrl+C to select all the headers and copy them to the clipboard, than then open notepad and click on the Edit menu, and then Paste. In Outlook Express is naturally different. Right click on the message in the message list, and this time select Properties. Click on the Details tab in the resulting dialog, and you should see something like this:
This time, however, the box with the internet headers cannot be so easily copy / pasted into another application. Instead, you can press the Message Source button and get the entire message, including its headers, in a resizable, scrollable window (that you can copy / paste from, if you like). Thunderbird is perhaps easiest of all in this regard. Just click on the little boxed plus sign at the top of the message, and the header will expand to show all entries:
Mail clients, including free email services, are all different. Some may display full headers by default, others will hide them, but provide some way, perhaps obscure, to view them. The good news is that it's rare you'd actually need to see them anyway. Related:
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Microsoft couldn't tell me how to access a header in an Outlook message (their instructions didn't make sense :-) but you did - thank you very much :-) Posted by: Agnes at May 1, 2006 12:20 PMThe information is somewhat correct, however when viewing the Internet headers in Outlook, this information is NOT the full Internet headers, needed to report spam. The example you show in Outlook is insufficient to report spam. Apparently it is impossible to get Microsoft to explain how to do this, unless you use a patch-in hack code for the Outlook registry. They obviously have not built that into the Outlook system, like they have for express. Posted by: Mickey D at March 14, 2007 06:42 AMI have two questions. Thank you! Posted by: Lara at October 30, 2007 01:07 PM-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- It depends on the mail program that was used to do the forwarding or Leo
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