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How to Send an E-mail with Full Headers

By default, e-mail clients may not display all part of a message. Special steps need to be taken in order to send a complete copy of the original message with full headers. Below are details on how to do this with various e-mail clients.

Entourage 2004

  1. Open the “Spam” email in a new window.
  2. Select View and Internet Headers.
  3. Headers appear in the message window.
  4. Highlight and copy the headers.
  5. Select File and New.
  6. Select Mail Message.
  7. A pop window appears.
  8. Paste the headers into the body of the message.
  9. Send the message copy to the appropriate address.

Eudora 7.2 for Windows

Different steps must be taken for messages that contain html and messages that do not contain html. To determine if your message contains html, open the message. Click “Blah Blah Blah” button to reveal the complete message headers. If the line “content-Type: text/html” exists, this message contains html. Otherwise, follow the steps for messages without html. 

    Messages with HTML

    1. Select Tools and Options.
    2. On the left side of the Options window, select the Viewing Mail category.
    3. Make sure Use Microsoft’s Viewer is unchecked.
    4. Click OK.
    5. Re-open the Spam email you want to forward. (If the message is already open, close it first.)
    6. Select the “Blah Blah Blah” button.
    7. Highlight the headers of the message.
    8. Create a new message and copy and paste these headers into the body of the message.
    9. Return to the original message.
    10. Move your mouse to the body of the message and right click the mouse.
    11. Select View Source.
    12. A pop window appears.
    13. Select the entire source.
    14. Copy and paste the source into the new message after the headers.
    15. Send the message copy to the appropriate address.

    Messages without HTML

    1. Open the “Spam” message.
    2. Select the “Blah Blah Blah” button.
    3. Select Message and Forward.
    4. A pop up window will appear.
    5. Send the message copy to the appropriate address.

Eudora 6.2 for Mac

  1. Open the “Spam” message.
  2. Select the “Blah Blah Blah” button.
  3. Select Message and Forward.
  4. A pop up window will appear.
  5. Send the message copy to the appropriate address.    

Mac Mail

  1. Open the “Spam Message”.
  2. Select View and Message.
  3. Select Raw Source.
  4. Highlight and copy the source text.
  5. Paste the text into the body of the “Spam” message.
  6. Select Message and Forward.
  7. Send the message to the appropriate address.

Outlook 2003

  1. Open the “Spam” message.
  2. Select View and Options.
  3. A pop up window appears.
  4. Under Internet headers: highlight and copy the text.
  5. Click Close.
  6. Paste the text into the body of the “Spam” Message.
  7. Select Actions and Forward.
  8. Send the message to the appropriate address.

Outlook 2007

  1. Open the “Spam” message.
  2. Under Options click the diagonal arrow symbol in the lower right corner.
  3. A pop up window appears.
  4. Under Internet headers: highlight and copy the text.
  5. Click Close.
  6. Paste the text into the body of the “Spam” Message.
  7. Select Actions and Forward.
  8. Send the message to the appropriate address.

Thunderbird for Windows

  1. Open the “Spam” message.
  2. Select View.
  3. A drop down menu appears.
  4. Select Message Source.
  5. The full text of the message with full headers will be displayed.
  6. Highlight and copy the full headers.
  7. Close the pop up window.
  8. Go back to the “scam” email, select Message and Forward.
  9. Paste the full headers into the top of the e-mail message.
  10. Send the message to the appropriate address.

Thunderbird for Mac

  1. Open the “Spam” message.
  2. Select View.
  3. A drop down menu appears.
  4. Select Message Source.
  5. The full text of the message with full headers will be displayed.
  6. Highlight and copy the full headers.
  7. Close the pop up window.
  8. Go back to the “scam” email, select Message and Forward.
  9. Paste the full headers into the top of the e-mail message.
  10. Send the message to the appropriate address.

Webmail

  1. Open the “Spam” message in a new window.
  2. Select the Source icon button to the left of Close.
  3. A pop up window appears.
  4. Copy the source text.
  5. Create a new message and paste the source text into the body of the message.
  6. Send a message copy to the appropriate address.

 

Contact Info

If you are having problems please call the ETS Help Desk at (619) 594-5261 or e-mail us at etshelpdesk@mail.sdsu.edu

 

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