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How to obtain header info from various e-mail clients:

Eudora:

Eudora has a 'Blah Blah Blah' button in the top of each received message which needs to be clicked to see full headers. Just click the button and then forward the message, and all headers are sent.

Pine:

The full-header command must first be enabled. This only needs to be done once, and you may already have it enabled. Enabling this option will allow the user to see and forward the complete list of headers with the 'h' command on a message-by-message basis.

To do this, type: 
's' to enter the setup 
'c' for config 
' ' space a couple of time to page down the config options until you get the page with enable-full-header-cmd
'n' to move down the page to the line with enable-full-header-cmd
'x' to set that option
'e' to exit config 

Then, when you want to see or forward a message with the full set of headers you type 'h'. Otherwise it will look and act just as it does now. Answer 'n' if Pine asks you if you want to "Forward message as attachment"

Netscape Communicator Mail:

Once in the Netscape Mail program, hit the Toolbar option labeled <VIEW>, then select from the scroll down menu <HEADERS> and then <ALL>, and all headers are sent.

Microsoft Outlook: 

To view message headers in Microsoft Outlook: 

  1. Open the mail message. 
  2. In Outlook 97, click the Options tab at the top.
  3. In Outlook 98, select Options. . . from the View menu.
  4. The message headers are at the bottom of the window, and are labeled Headers: or Internet headers: . 

Microsoft Exchange:

To view message headers using Microsoft Exchange, follow these steps: 

  1. Open the mail folder containing the mail message.
  2. In the list of messages, right click the mail message you are interested in.
  3. Select Properties.
  4. Click the Headers tab to read the full Internet Mail headers.
 

 



Last updated: May 31, 2007
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