How to Get Email Headers

Dec, 2016

December 19, 2016

This Article will show you how to get full email headers, this information is often needed by support specialists to help locate the source of spam

Outlook 2000/2002/2003

Open Outlook
Next double-click to open the email message in a new window.
Now select View
Then Options from the message's menu.
All the header lines appear under Internet Headers at the bottom of the dialog box.

Outlook 2007/2010/2013

To display Email full headers, first open Outlook
Next double click on the Message, which you want to view full email headers.
Then click Options in Outlook 2007 and Tags for Outlook 2010/2013.
And the Message Options dialog box is displayed.
The internet headers are shown in the Internet headers field at the bottom of the dialog box

Webmail

Open Your Webmail (Horde)
In the Inbox click the email message
click on the arrow like icon before the subject of the email
Next click on Other Options then view source.
a new window will pop-up copy the content and paste it to word or text editor to see all the content.
For Roundcube in Webmail
Click message in your Inbox
Then click More in the upper right corner
Select Source, a new window will appear showing the full header.

Gmail

Log in to Gmail
Open the Message you want to get or see the full header
Next click the down arrow next to Reply, at the top-right of the message
Then select the Show Original
and the full headers will appear in a new window.

Mozilla Thunderbird

Mac OS X