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Displaying Full Headers in Email

Summary: Technical support staff will sometimes ask you to provide full email header information when you contact us with certain problems, questions or requests. Use the instructions below to display full headers in your email software.

• Webmail
• Eudora
• Outlook 2002/XP
• Mail (OS X)
• Pine
• Outlook Express

A full email header looks like this.

Return-Path: <communicationsuci.edu@uadv.uci.edu>
Received: from 2kserver.uadv.uci.edu (2kserver.uadv.uci.edu [128.200.129.14]) by smtp2.es.uci.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j0OJXadI002554; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:33:37 -0800
X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0
Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Message-Id: <B8238F4D90ABAA4BA9BC648ECD296699036CA050@2kserver.uadv.uci.edu>
X-Ms-Has-Attach:
X-Ms-Tnef-Correlator:
Thread-Topic: UCI IN THE NEWS - Jan. 24, 2005
Thread-Index: AcUCS4JRmmBJnKBhRRi2cz7TxTJI1w==
X-Nacs_Es-Mailscanner: No viruses found
X-Mailscanner-From: communicationsuci.edu@uadv.uci.edu
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Mime-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by smtp2.es.uci.edu id j0OJXadI002554

How to display Full Headers

Webmail

1. Display the message.
2. Click the View Full Header link in the Option field at the top.
3. Copy the Full Header information. Click the View message link to return to the message.
4. Forward the message to the appropriate group. You will need to paste the full header information into the message body.

Eudora

1. Display the message.
2. In the upper left corner of the message window, click on the Blah Blah Blah icon.
3. With full headers displayed, forward the message to the appropriate group(s).

Outlook 2003/XP

1. Right-click the message and select Options.
2. Copy and paste everything from Internet headers field into the message you are forwarding to the appropriate group(s).

Mail.app (Mac OS X 10.2 and later)

1. Display the message.
2. Under the View menu, select Message, then Long Header.
3. With the full headers displayed, forward the message to the appropriate group(s)

Pine

1. Display the message.
2. Press H.
3. With full headers displayed, forward the message to the appropriate group(s).

Outlook Express

1. Click the email message
2. Click the "File" menu
3. Click "Properties"
4. Click the "Details" tab
5. Click "Message Source"
6. Copy and paste everything from this window into the message you are forwarding to the appropriate group(s).