How to View/Copy Headers of Mail

When sending a report of e-mail abuse (spam, harassment, fraud etc..) it is necessary to include the full internet headers. Most people (novice users especially) may not know. This page's pictures and text links will explain how it is done for a wide variety of e-mail software.

We want to help you on your computer with viewing headers of an e-mail and then copying the full internet headers so your abuse report will be accepted.Viewing the e-mail headers also answers the question where did this e-mail come from? since it's most likely going to be forged.

By Viewing the headers you see things like the examples I have showing below. This tells the WHOLE story about the e-mail, not just what the sender wanted you to know! As always here...if you still don't understand..just E-mail me and I'll help you to understand what it all means

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Microsoft products

Mac OS X
Netscape
Eudora
AOL
Pine
Lotus Notes (v.4.x and v.5.x)
Lotus Notes (v.6.x)
Pegasus Mail
WebTV
Claris Emailer
kmail (KDE Desktop)
GNU/Emacs integrated email
Mail Warrior
Juno Version 4+
Mutt
The Bat!
Pronto mail (GTK/unix)
StarOffice
Novell Groupwise
Blitzmail
Forté Agent
Ximian Evolution
 Sylpheed

Web-based email software
Hotmail
Yahoo Mail
Excite web-mail
Netscape Webmail
Blitzmail
Operamail
Lycos Mail (mailcity.com)
Onebox.com
 Outlook Web Access

Microsoft Outlook Express

Right click the message you wish to report and Choose "properties"

Next in the popup properties window Click on the 'Details' Tab then right click the text inside this window choose "select all" Then right click it again and

Choose "Copy" You can now close this details window up and Report Your Spam filling in the form and then right clicking the 'Details" window in the

spam report form. Then choose "paste" again and you will see all the text from the headers appear in the form for you to submit.

Microsoft Outlook 2000/XP:
With your microsoft outlook open, single click to highlight the message then right click and choose "options". From the options section (as shown below)

Go to the "Internet Headers" section in that window, position your mouse over the text in this box, drag over it with the left mouse button clicked to highlight the entire contents of that window.

Next, right click and choose "copy", then return to the E-Mail spam report form and choose "paste".

Netscape Communicator:
As shown below, in communicator's mail section, click View then Headers and select "ALL". Then copy the entire message header (portion that appears before message body).

Next, return to the report form and paste that information into the form's window.