How to view email headers in Hotmail Classic?
(If you login to your email using Windows Live then follow the instructions outlined in the next paragraph.)

• Log into Hotmail.
• Click on “Options” tab on the top navigation bar.
• Under Options you will see the following message, “You are using the classic version of Windows Live Hotmail. Have a fast connection and want more features? Try the full version to see message previews in your inbox. (It’s free, too.)”
• Click on the “Try the full version” link.
• Click on  “I want the Free Upgrade..”, button
• To view the full email message header, right click the email message displayed in your list of messages. A menu will pop-up. Click on the View source option in this menu, and a new window will open. This window will display the full email headers.
  

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  How to view email headers in Windows Live Hotmail ?

  When you log into your email account please check to make sure that you are not using the Classic version of Windows Live Hotmail. If you are using the classic version then you need to choose the full version to view headers. To choose the full version follow the steps below.

• Click on “Options” tab on the top navigation bar.
• Under Options you will see the following message, “You are using the classic version of Windows Live Hotmail. Have a fast connection and want more features? Try the full version to see message previews in your inbox. (It’s free, too.)”
• Click on the “Try the full version” link.
• Click on  “I want the Free Upgrade..”, button
• The new Windows Live Hotmail looks and functions very much like Microsoft Outlook. To view the full email message header, right click the email message displayed in your list of messages. A menu will pop-up. Click on the View source option in this menu, and a new window will open. This window will display the full email headers.
  

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  How to check email headers in Yahoo Mail Classic ?
  (If you are using the New version of Yahoo Mail then please follow the instructions outlined in the next paragraph)

   

• Log into your Yahoo! Mail account.
• Click on the email and open it
• On the bottom right corner is a link called “Full Header”
• Once you click on “Full Header” the header will show up at the top of the email message.How to check email header in the New Yahoo Mail ?When you log into your email account please check to make sure that you are not using Yahoo Mail Classic. If you are using Yahoo Mail Classic then click on the link, “All New Mail” on the top right corner just before the link for Help.
• Click on the Inbox to see the list of your messages.
• Click on the message and open the email.
• On the top right corner of the email message you will see “Standard Header” and an arrow next to it. Click on this arrow and then click on “Full Headers”
• A new window will open with the header information.
  

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  How to get email headers in AOL or AIM ?

  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 the Reverse AOL Screenname search can help deduce the source location.

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  How to view email headers in Gmail or Googlemail ?

  1. Log into your Gmail or Googlemail Account
  2. Open the Email whose headers you want to view
  3. You will see Reply at the top right of the message pane.
  3. You will see a little arrow pointing down next to Reply.  Click on this down arrow next to Reply.
  4. A drop down menu will open up. Select Show original in this menu
  5. The full headers will now appear in a new window.

  How to see email headers in Thunderbird ( Firefox – Mozilla ) ?

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

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  How to obtain email headers in 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.

How to view email headers in 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 Exchange

1. To get the complete headers and message source using Microsoft Exchange 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

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

Eudora

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

Lotus Notes (v.4.x and v.5.x)

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.

Claris Emailer

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)

GNU/Emacs integrated email

Mail Warrior

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+

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…î (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

 The Bat!

– 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

FortÈ Agent

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

Go to the “View” menu, select “Message Display” and click on “Show Full Headers”.

Sylpheed

• 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

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

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

• 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

To close the full headers and return to brief headers, click the yellow triangle again.

Blitzmail

Operamail

Lycos Mail (mailcity.com)

Onebox.com

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

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.