How to get email headers

The following guide will provide instructions on how to extract

headers from various email clients and programs.

Hotmail
� Log into Hotmail.
� Click on "Options" tab on the top navigation bar.
� Click on the "Mail" link on the navigation bar on the left.
� Click on the "Mail Display Settings" link.
� Change the "Message Headers" option to "Full".
� Click the "OK" button.

Yahoo Mail
� Log into your Yahoo! Mail account.
� Click the "Options" link on the navigation bar.
� Click the "General Preferences" link.
� Go to the paragraph titled Messages and Locate the Show Headers heading and
select "All."
� Click the "Save" button to put your new settings into effect.
Once this setting is saved, go back and open your email and you should view the
headers.

AOL Mail
If the email is sent from anywhere OTHER then AOL, and you are receiving it in
AOL, then open the
email you want to trace, or have your client open the email, and look for the link
Details. This link is
usually just below the To:email in the email message. If the email is sent from
an AOL user to another
AOL user then our Reverse AOL Screenname search can get you the sender's
information.

Gmail
1. Log into your Gmail Account
2. open the Email whose headers you want to view
3. Click on the more options link in the message next to the date of the email.
If the link says hide options then do not worry u have already clicked on the more
options link.
4. Now click the link called show original.
5. This will bring up a new window with headers and the body of the message.

Thunderbird (Firefox - Mozilla)

To view email headers, Go to "View", Then go to Headers and select "All" to view
email headers.

XtraMail
� Log into XtraMail
� Click on "Options" in the Left-hand navigation bar.
� Click the "Display" button.
� Change the "Message Headers" option to "Full".
� Click the "OK" button.

Outlook Express 4, 5 and 6

Start by opening the message in its own window (or when viewing the message in the

preview pane). Then,

With the keyboard:

1. CTRL-F3 (Message Source Window)
2. CTRL-A (select all)
3. CTRL-C (copy)
4. ALT-F4 (close)

With the mouse:

1. Click the "File" menu
2. Click "Properties"
3. Click the "Details" tab
4. Click "Message Source"
5. Highlight, copy and paste everything from this window (Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C)

With viruses, worms and trojans being spread via email, many users now work with
the
preview screen in Outlook Express turned off. Viewing the contents of email in the

preview screen is no different than opening the message. If the email has
malicious
content, it may execute in the preview screen.

The following is instructions to obtain the full message source if you have the
preview
panel turned off:

Using the keyboard:

1. Highlight the message in the folder
2. Press alt & enter - this will open a message information window
3. Press Ctrl & Tab - this changes to the "Details" tab
4. Press Alt & m - the opens the message source
5. Press Ctrl & a - to select all the text
6. Press Ctrl & c - to copy the selected text to the clipboard
7. Press Alt & F4 - to close the message source window
8. Press the Esc key - to close the information window

Outlook 97
Microsoft Outlook 97 may require an update called the Internet Mail Enhancement
Patch in order to display the email headers AT ALL.

Outlook 98, Outlook 2000, Outlook 2003

1. Open the message in a separate window (double click)
2. Under the View menu select Options
3. Copy the text in the Internet Headers window (unfortunately it doesn't include
the message itself).
4.Paste
5.Close the options window

View headers in Outlook 2007

In Outlook 2007 you can view the headers without opening the message. Just right
click on the email
message in your Inbox and choose Message Options. This will show you the headers.
Or you can open the email message. You can open the email message by double
clicking on it.
Outlook 2007 has a new ribbon user interface. Look at the right of Options and you
will see an arrow.
Click on the arrow and in the bottom section there is the message options menu
with internet
headers. This will show you the email headers.

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 Exchange
1. Click the "File" menu
2. Click "Properties"
3. Click the "Details" tab
4. Click "Message Source"
5. Highlight, copy and paste everything from the "Message Source" window (Ctrl-A,
Ctrl-C)

Microsoft Entourage (Office X for Mac)

* After clicking on the message, select "Source" from the View menu
* A new window will open showing the full message source with complete headers.
* Copy and paste

Mac OS X
1. Select a message
2. Select menu item Message, Show, Raw Source.
3. Click on the resulting text
4. Click Edit, Select All, then Edit, Copy
5.Paste

Netscape
Preferred method: Click on the "View" menu, then "Page Source," (ctrl-U in
windows,
meta-U in UNIX,?-U on the Mac) then copy the contents of the window (Ctrl-A, Ctrl-
C windows).

Old versions: Click on the "View" menu, then "Headers," then "All." Note: This
method
will not work correctly with HTML.

Eudora
Note: Using the cut and paste to the web form method is the only option available
to
Eudora users. To display the full message source for cut and paste:

Eudora for the Mac:

1. Open the email and click the button on the upper left hand corner of the
message. This shows the extended headers.
2. Select the whole message including headers and paste.

Eudora for the PC

- there are 2 slightly different methods depending on whether the mail contains
HTML or not.
In any case, to prepare for HTML email, you should turn off the use of Microsoft's

HTML viewer. To do so, click Tools, then Options, then Viewing Mail. Uncheck the
box labeled "Use Microsoft's viewer."

How to know if it's HTML mail: once you have opened the email, look near the
bottom
of the headers (see below for revealing headers) for a line like the following:
Content-
Type: text/html ... you can frequently spot HTML email because it has font
effects,
pictures, etc but this is not always true so you have to take a quick look at the
headers.

Eudora for the PC - non-HTML mail:

1. Open the email by double clicking on the subject line. Click the button to
reveal the headers.
2. Place your cursor anywhere in the body of the email and select the entire
message (Edit/Select All or Ctrl-A)
3. Copy the entire email (right click and click copy OR Ctrl/C OR Edit/Copy)
4. Paste (right click/paste or Ctrl/V).

Eudora for the PC - HTML mail:

1. Open the email and click the button to reveal the headers.
2. Highlight the headers only. Copy and paste the headers.
3. Hit enter twice after the pasted headers to force a blank line after the
headers.
4.Back in Eudora window, place your cursor anywhere in the body of the message and
right click and click "view source". A new window will open.
5. In the new window, select all (as above) and copy the contents of the new
window.
6. Paste

Pine
If the feature is enabled, you simply press "H" to toggle full headers. If the
feature is not
enabled, you must enable it first: From the main menu, press (S)etup, (C)onfig.
Scroll
down about 40 lines to the option labeled "enable-full-header-cmd." Press [ENTER].

Press (E)xit, (Y)es - to save. Then you can return to the message window and use
"H" to
display the headers.
Lotus Notes (v.4.x and v.5.x)
Open the email, click on "Actions" then on "Delivery Information."
Next, you have to pick out the internet-style mail header information from the
window
that appears when you select Delivery Information.

Lotus Notes v.4.x

Look for the first line that begins with "Received". There should be a blank line
just
above it. Then, scroll down to the next blank line. The stuff in-between the two
blank
lines are the headers you need.

Lotus Notes v.5.x

Look for the separator line that reads
-------- Additional Header ------.
Select everything from there down to the next separator line, usually
-------- Routing Information ------.
The stuff in between the two separator lines are the headers you need.

Lotus Notes v.5.x (easier method)

1. Open your inbox
2. Highlight the message that you wish to get header information for.
3. Choose File -> Export...
4. Type in a filename, leave the type as "Structured Text" and click Export
5. From the Dialog Box that comes up, choose "Selected Documents" and click OK
6. Now you can open that message you saved in WordPad and Cut and Paste it.

Pegasus Mail
In the New Mail or other folder window:
1. Right click the message, and select Message Properties.
2. In the right hand column uncheck the box beside Contains HTML data.
3. Click OK. That should allow you to see the message as a text message only.
4. Click Ctrl-H to bring up the full headers.

Another way:
1. Highlight the HTML in the new mail folder
2. Open a new email message
3. Drag the HTML onto the new message
4. In the dialog that appears select "Show All Headers"
5. Highlight the entire message, then copy to clipboard
6. Paste

Claris Emailer
Version 2.0 and higher:
Use the "Show Long Headers" option in the "Mail" menu while you have the message
open.

Versions earlier than 2.0:

Click the blue triangle near the "from" information to show additional message
information, then click the "Show Original Headers..." button to bring up the full
header
info.

kmail (KDE Desktop)

In the KDE Mail Client that comes with the KDE desktop for Linux, select Message,
View Source. Copy and paste the text from the "Message as Plain Text" window.

GNU/Emacs integrated email

Press the keys 'W', then 'v' in the summary or mail buffer.
Another method of temporarily switching to ALL headers is by pressing "Ctrl-u g"
on the
article in the summary buffer.

Mail Warrior
To get full "message source"
1. When viewing the message, click File, then Save Message As.
2. A standard save window will appear.
3. Save the message as a .txt file (document.txt).
4. Open the file you created, select all (ctrl-A) and copy (ctrl-c).
5. And paste (ctrl-v).
These instructions written for v.3.56.

Juno Version 4+
On the drop down menu "Options", choose "Email Options...� (press ctrl-E) Under
"Show Message Headers", select the "full" option. Click the OK button to save the
setting. Juno version 4+ can display MIME and HTML email, but does not provide a
way of
viewing the HTML Source for the message within Juno.

To get the full source, including HTML codes:

1. In the Juno mail client, click "file" and then "Save Message as Text File...�
(ctrl-T).
2. Give the file a name which you will remember (many people save temporary files
to the desktop).
3. Double-click on the resulting file and then cut-and-paste the contents.

Mutt
To get mutt (the mail user agent) to forward the full headers (not display them
for
viewing), use the command "unset forward decode" in your rc file or directly in
the
command interface.

The Bat!
To get the full text of an HTML message from TheBat email software in preparation
for
pasting it:
- Message -> Save As -> Save as Type - I
- Select Unix Mailboxes[*.mbx]
- Open the file in your preferred editor, then simply cut and paste.
For The Bat! v1.53bis:
- Select the message in question
- Click on the "Messages" menu
- Select "View Source"
- Alternatively, you may push F9 instead of the last two steps.

Pronto mail (GTK/UNIX)

1. Click "Message", then "View Source"
2. Highlight the message source as normal with the mouse
3. Copy using Control + C
4. Paste

StarOffice
1. Right click on the container name in the explorer panel (either a top-level
mail box or a specific mail folder).
2. Select the Properties item from the pop-up menu.
3. In the properties notebook, select the Headers tab.
4. Click the "All" button on the right.
5. Press "OK" and you're done, the complete header is available in the header
panel and can be selected/pasted.

Novell GroupWise
1. Open the message
2. In the message window select: File > Attachments > View
3. Select the Mime.822 attachment

Blitzmail
With the message open, go to the Options menu and choose Verbose Header. This will

put the full header inside the upper pane of the message's window.

Fort� Agent
Fort� Agent versions 1.5 to 1.8:
Press CTRL-R to display in RAW mode, then CTRL-A and CTRL-C
Don't forget to press CTRL-R again to display in normal mode after you do this.

Ximian Evolution
http://www.Ximian.com/products/ximian_evolution/
Go to the "View" menu, select "Message Display" and click on "Show Full Headers".

Sylpheed
Sylpheed is an email client for Linux, BSD and Unix systems. Sylpheed offers three
ways
to view the full source code of messages:
* Select the email
* Right click and mouse-over "View"
* Select "Source" from the popup menu

or....
* Select the email
* Left click on the "View" menu
* Select "View Source"

or....
* Select the email
* Press Ctrl-U (default keymap setting

-----Web-Based Email Software----

Hotmail
To see the full, untangled headers in Hotmail:
1. First, configure your options:
Click on "Options." In the "Additional Options" column, click on "Mail
Display Options" and find the item "Message Headers." Choose
"Advanced" and click the "OK" button.
2. Then, to report spam:
When viewing a message, use the "View E-mail Message Source" to display
the message in raw mode before copying.

Yahoo Mail
Follow these steps:
First you must turn on "Full Headers". From your Yahoo! mail account, click on
"Mail
Preference". Scroll down the page to "Message Headers" and click on the "all"
radio
button. Save your preferences at the bottom of the page.
Next, view the message you want to report. If the message is in plain text,
copying from
this page and pasting it will work.

If the message to be reported is HTML, a two stepped process must be used:

1.View the message and copy the complete headers. Paste these then add a blank
line.
2. Go back to the Yahoo! window and select to "Forward" the message as
"inline text" (drop down menu). Scroll down the message to the start of the
message body. (The first line of the HTML body will usually begin <HTML).
Copy the body of the message and paste. Make sure a blank line remains
between the header and body.

Excite web-mail
To view the full header information with 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
You can then see the headers in all messages in your folders.

Netscape Webmail
While viewing the message, click on the yellow triangle to the right of the brief
message
headers. This will display the full headers along with the message body, which can
be cut
and pasted. To close the full headers and return to brief headers, click the
yellow triangle again.

Blitzmail
After opening the message, click on the Verbose Header link at the top of the
window.

Operamail
Choose Options and enable [x] Show Message Headers in Body of Message

Lycos Mail (mailcity.com)

When viewing an individual message, click on the tool bar menu item above the
message
"All Headers". Highlight and copy the complete message from the viewing window and

paste it.

Onebox.com
Click on the subject of the email in your inbox or other folder. This displays the
message.
At the top of the message you will see the following links in the message frame
right
above the "reply" buttons:
[folder name]: Prev | Next: Download
Select "Download" from the above.
A new browser window will spawn with both the headers and the message text. At
this
point, simply copy all the text and paste it.

Outlook Web Access

(as accessed through http://mymail.outlookmail.com/exchange/logon.asp)
Left click on the letter you want to open and click on properties
When that opens click on the details tab
Then on message source
This will open the email so the full headers will be available for viewing
Select and copy the text then paste it.