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How to view Full Header Information with Microsoft Outlook Email Reader
Why would you want to read the "Full Header" information ? Because Spammers
fake their email address. They want you to click on the link in the Spam and
don't actually want you to reply to them at all. If you do then you will
most time be emailing some poor innocent person on the internet. Or a non
existing email address. With the full header information you can see where
the Spam is REALLY coming from. And you can even email their internet
provider then and tell them they have a spammer. Or customer sending
viruses!
In Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 & Microsoft Outlook 2000 & 2002.
1. You must open the individual message. You can't see it from the INBOX
index.
- Click VIEW on the top tool bar.
- Click OPTIONS. The full header information is in a separate Popup
window.
The Header information is available, but it is not contained in the message body, but in a separate window.
All messages actually have the full header info. It is just not normally
shown. Unlike Netscape mail or Eudora, it is never contained in the message
body.
If you want to send the header information from Outlook to someone you will have to
highlight the header details in the popup window and then "CONTROL C" to
"Copy" the text and then "PASTE" it into Notepad or your email program.
For descriptions of the process and what is contained in a full header see:
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/preview.aspx?AssetID=HA010937071033&CTT=1&Origin=EC010230001033&QueryID=9Fu5D3oOu0
Thanks to Phil Fehring for that piece of information above.
Micronica
12/8/04
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