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Showing Full Headers of a Message


When forwarding an unwanted or abusive email to postmasters for action, it's very important that you include all of the header information. A great number of spammers, for instance, will do all they can to blur the origin of their message, but they can't forge everything! So here's a guide to viewing full headers in a variety of popular mail clients.

Pine users
Elm users
Mutt users
Eudora users
Pegasus users
Netscape users
Microsoft Outlook users


Full Headers in Pine


Full Headers in Elm

Unfortunately, although Elm will happily show full headers while viewing a message, it will not reproduce them when forwarding the mail. So the only method is a bit ugly and time-consuming...


Full Headers in Mutt

Older versions of Mutt handle headers beautifully: no muss, no fuss. Press h to view the headers, then f to forward the message. That's it!

In newer versions of Mutt (we first noticed it at Panix on version 0.93.2i, but we skipped a few revisions when upgrading) your mime_forward variable must be unset. This is the default on most, but not all, systems. If forwarding a message does not put the full headers in the body, check that variable in your .muttrc.


Full Headers in Eudora


Full Headers in Pegasus

Pegasus is another mailer which will show you full headers, but not forward them, so you will need to use cut and paste.


Full Headers in Netscape


Full Headers in Microsoft Outlook


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