Message headers in Outlook 2003

Quackles

Hi.. First of all, my apologies if I'm posting in the wrong place, just let me know and I'll change it. Now, the problem! I am trying to send a message to somebody for troubleshooting purposes and he wants me to send it in plain text with full message headers intact. Plain text I can handle, but what does he mean by message headers intact? How do I do this?

Thanks!

stevenmu

Message headers are parts of an email that contain information about who it's going to, who sent it, what the reply address should be, what files are attached etc. In general they're handled completely by the email client (outlook in your case), any email you send to him should automatically have the headers attached (otherwise wouldn't get to him).

If he's trying to get you to forward a particular email to him, that's a little different, hitting the forward button will actually create a new mail containing the content of the original mail but it will have it's own headers, not the ones from the original mail. If this is what he wants you to do, there's two things you can do. One is to create a new mail to him, and drag-and-drop the mail he wants forwarded into it, this will add the original email, including it's headers, as an attachment to the mail. The other is to open the mail and in the toolbar go to 'View' and then 'Options', there'll be a box there with all the headers in it, copy these, then forward the original mail pasting these in somewhere.

shamalive

This should help


http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010937071033.aspx

Quackles

Perfect, thank you kindly!