ARCHIVED: In Outlook Express, Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, or Entourage, how do I display and send the full headers of an email message?

To mail the full headers of an email message you have received, first display the headers, and then insert them into the body of an email message.

Displaying full headers

• In Outlook Express, Windows Mail, or Windows Live Mail for Windows:
  
  
  1. In the message index, right-click the message, and then select Properties.
  2. Click the Details tab. This will display the full headers of the message.
  
  
• In Entourage for Mac OS X, open the message in a separate window, and from the Message (Entourage 2008) or View (earlier versions) menu, select Internet headers.
  
  
• In Outlook 2011 for Mac OS X, from the listing of messages, right-click or control-click the message and select View Source.

• In ThunderBird 3x for Windows or Mac OS X, click View, then choose Headers, then All. The full headers will display in the upper part of the message.

Inserting headers into a message

To insert the headers into an email message:

1. Click and drag the cursor to select all the header text.
   
   
2. Press Ctrl-c in Windows or Command-c in Mac OS X to copy the headers to the Clipboard.
   
   
3. Create a new email message, and in its main text window, press Ctrl-v in Windows or Command-v in Mac OS X to paste the headers.

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