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How to View Email Headers
Below are the various popular email client software packages and the
instructions for viewing headers in each.
Eudora Pro, Microsoft
Internet Explorer, Microsoft
Outlook 98 and Outlook 2000, Microsoft Outlook
2007, Microsoft Outlook Express
5, Netscape Messenger, Operamail,
Pegasus, Pine, Unix,
and WebTV.
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| Eudora Pro |
When reading an email message, look at the toolbar just above
the message itself. There should be a button that reads
BLAH
BLAH
BLAH
in black and white. Click on this and the full headers will appear. Then
select all, copy and paste into a new message to send to the offender's
ISP, or click on the forward button and the full headers will automatically
be placed in the new email message. |
| Microsoft
Internet Explorer |
I just stumbled onto a way to attach the full header to a
message.
Choose "Properties" under "File". Click on the "Details" tab. This will
show the full header.
Now right click and choose "Select All". Right click again and choose "Copy".
Start a new message, right click again, and choose "Paste". This will paste
the entire header into this new (and temporary) message. Copy the header
from the new message and paste it back onto the original. The paste command
doesn't work directly on the original message.
This isn't elegant, but it seems to work. |
| Microsoft
Outlook 98, Outlook 2000, Outlook 2003 |
Open the message and select View, then Options from the drop-down
menus.
Near the bottom of the screen you'll see a section titled INTERNET HEADERS.
You can copy the headers and paste them into an email elsewhere to get them
to the proper people. |
| Microsoft Outlook
2007 |
Double click on the email message so that it is open in its
own window. Outlook 2007 uses a watered-down version of Word 2007
as the email editor and with it comes the new ribbon user interface.
Thus, the "Options" feature is no longer under "View",
as with previous versions of Outlook, and takes some hunting to find it,
but it is there. It is on the "Message" tab, in the "Options"
block, which is the fourth block over. To the right of "Options",
there is a little button with an arrow in it. Click on it and you
have the message options menu with the internet headers in the bottom section.
Select this information and copy/paste it as needed.
If you don't have the message yet open, which is better yet, and you
wish to see the header, right click on the message in your inbox and choose
"Message Options". You will be looking at the headers
at this point.
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| Microsoft
Outlook Express 5 |
There's an even easier solution to expanding Microsoft's Outlook
Express 5 headers so that you can copy and paste it to another window:
Right click on the message and select Properties.
Choose the Details tab and select the Message Source Button.
Select All (CTRL + A) and Copy (CTRL + C).
Close the Message Source window and the Properties window.
Select New Mail and position your cursor in the body of the email.
Paste (CTRL + V) the copied information.
Send the email to the ISP where the SPAM/UCE originated from.
Additional Method
Here's a tip to simplify the process of getting full headers when using
Outlook Express 5 and Windows 98 (don't know about other versions of OE)
Instead of selecting the message, right-clicking properties, clicking details,
then message source, simply select the message and press Ctrl-F3. Then press
Ctrl-A followed by Ctrl-C. (Ctrl-F3 takes care of all the steps necessary
to get to the full header. Ctrl-A selects all the text and Ctrl-C copies
it to the clipboard.)
Now start a new message or just forward the original message (which takes
less time than opening a new one) to the originating ISP. |
| Mozilla
Thunderbird |
To read the email headers in the Mozilla Thunderbird
email client, simply open the email. On the menu bar, go to View |
Headers and select "All". The headers are immediately displayed.
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| Netscape Messenger |
To read the email header in Netscape Messenger (the email
reader supplied with Netscape communicator) press Ctrl-U. A new window will
open with the full message including the complete header. To copy this to
a email message press Ctrl-A to highlight the entire message then Ctrl-C
to copy it. Open the email message you want to send. Using the mouse, place
the cursor in the body of the message, select edit / paste as quoted, from
the menu bar. |
| Operamail |
Choose Options and enable [x] Show Message Headers in Body
of Message |
| Pegasus |
In Pegasus, just hit Ctrl-H (or the backspace key) while reading
a message. You will see the full headers.
Do this *before* hitting "F" (for Forward), and the full headers will be
forwarded, too.
(True for Pegasus 2.53, at least) |
| Pine |
You must configure Pine to allow showing message headers.
You may skip steps 1-3 below if you have performed this configuration.
>From the main Pine menu, type S for Setup, then C for Config.
Use the space bar and down arrow to scroll until you reach the option [
] enable-full-header-cmd, then type X in the box to toggle the option on.
Type E to exit Config, and Y to save changes.
The next time you read a message, type H and the full headers will be displayed
at the top of the message. Type H again to hide the headers. |
| Unix |
I think I've figured out one way of of getting the full headers
on Unix. We received a spam and the message had just the usual "from," "to,"
"date," "subject" headers. But when I saved the message in a directory,
then used the "type" command or printed it out, full headers magically appeared,
showing where they were really posting from.
Another Tip:
Some more header info for some Unix mail programs.
Nearly nobody uses mail and mailx any more, but they're available on almost
all UNIX systems, so let's start with those. You can exit your current mail
program without changing the mailbox and then look at the mail message using
mail or mailx.
Showing a mail message with the Print or P command displays all of the header
lines. Note capital P -- it's important.
Saving the current mail message with the saveretain command saves all of
the header lines. (On some systems, Save or S -- note the capitals! -- does
this too).
There are lots of other mail readers; the one I use is ELM. In ELM, you
display the headers for the current message with the H command. |
| WebTV |
While viewing the email, hit "Forward" on the sidebar. Address
the document to yourself. Completely erase the subject line.
Put your cursor on the first line of the "body" (text area); Hit "Return"
(enter) twice. Your cursor should now be on the 3rd line of the text area.
Type any "Alt" character on this line; DO NOT HIT "RETURN"
Cut and Paste the "Alt" character onto the subject line: (CMD+"A"),
(CMD+"X"), (CMD +"V") The "Alt" character should "jump" down to
the message text-area.
Hit "Send"; open the received mail. |
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