How do I find the complete message header for an email?
To get the Internet message header for an email, find your email client below and follow the steps provided:
Microsoft Outlook 2000, 2002/XP, 2003:
- Open the message in a separate window (double click)
- Under the View menu select Options
- Copy the text in the "Internet Headers" window.
Microsoft Outlook 2007
- Double click on the email
- Click the "Expand" option in the lower right corner of the Options section in the Ribbon Bar.
- Headers are located in the bottom in the "Internet headers" section.
Microsoft Outlook Express for Macintosh
- Select the email.
- From the View menu, choose Source. A new window will appear containing the email with full headers.
- Press command+A to select all, then command+C to copy.
Microsoft Outlook Express 4, 5 and 6
- Click the File menu.
- Click Properties.
- Click the Details tab.
- Click Message Source.
- Highlight, copy and paste everything from this window (Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C).
Microsoft Exchange
- Click the File menu.
- Click Properties.
- Click the Details tab.
- Click Message Source.
- Highlight, copy and paste everything from the "Message Source" window (Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C).
Hotmail
- In the Folders list, click Inbox.
- Right-click the message in the message list, and then click View source.
Yahoo Mail
- In the email message, click the "Full Headers" link in the lower right corner of the email.
- Copy the headers (right-click and select Copy or Ctl-C or select Edit > Copy from the file menus on the top of the screen).
Juno
- In the Juno mail client, click "file" and then "Save Message as Text File". (ctrl-T).
- Give the file a name that you will remember.
- Double-click on the resulting file and then cut-and-paste the contents.
Excite Webmail
- Sign in to your email account.
- Click on Preferences on the Email home page
- Click on Email Preferences
- Check the box to display headers
- Click on Save
Gmail
- Log into your GMail account.
- Open the message you'd like to view headers for.
- Click the down arrow next to Reply, at the top-right of the message pane.
- Press the "Message Source" button to view the entire message, headers and all.
- Select Show original.
- The full headers will appear in a new window.
Apple Mail
- Open the "In" mailbox if it isn't already open Mailbox pull-down menu > Show > In. A keyboard shortcut is to press and hold the Command key and press 1 on the keyboard.
- Click on the message for which you want to see the full header information.
- Choose View from the pull-down menu and then choose Message and Long Headers. A keyboard shortcut is to press Command-Shift-H on the keyboard.
- Click on the Forward button, or choose Message from the pull-down menu and choose Forward Message. A keyboard shortcut is to press Command-Shift-f on the keyboard.
- Fill in the address in the "To:" field as well as the subject and then send the message.
AOL browser
- Double-click to open the message in the in-box
- This link will appear at the top of the email: Sent from the Internet (Details)
- Click the Details link to view the message headers
- Highlight, copy and paste everything from this window (Ctrl-A to select everying, Ctrl-C to copy)
AOL webmail
- Double-click to open the message in the in-box
- In the toolbar above, click Action and choose View Message Source
Note: If you have a popup blocker enabled, you may need to hold down the Ctrl button as you click View Message Source, or to right-click the blocked pop-up message and choose Temporarily Allow Pop-ups.
- This will open a copy of the email with the message headers at the top
Thunderbird
- Double-click to open the message in a separate window
- Click View and select Message Source
- Copy the message headers that appear at the top of the page, above the email text
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