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Office 365 - View or send the source of an email message header
This document explains how to view and/or forward the source of an email message. If you wish to send a message to email administrators, it is recommended that you forward the message as an attachment so the headers are included as well as the body.
Note: If you are planning to report a message as spam manually, please remember to forward it as an attachment to report-not-spam@doit.wisc.edu email address.
- Outlook on the web
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To view the headers:
- Log into Outlook on the web.
- Go to Mail.
- Open/View the message that you want to view the headers of.
- Within the message, click on the "..." (three dots) next to the "Reply/Reply all/forward arrow" action button and select View message details. The 'Message details' window will appear containing the header information of the message.
To send as an attachment:
- Log into Outlook on the web.
- Click New message.
- Click the pop-out icon,
, located at the top right corner of the message window. This will open this message as its own window within your browser.
- Next, organize your browser windows so that you can view both your mail folder listing and the new message window.
- Drag the email, from your mail folder list, that you want to include in the message you are composing. It will be included as an attachment. Important: If you are currently in 'Conversation' view, all the messages within the conversation will be attached. If you only want a specific message to be attached, change your view to 'Messages' then attach. Control view settings.
- Enter any other relative information and click Send button.
Note: The recipient(s) will receive this message which will include the message you dragged into it as an attachment.
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- Outlook for Windows
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To view the Headers
- Open up a message by double-clicking on it
- Click File tab in the top left of the message
- Choose Properties from the bottom of the list and you'll see Internet Headers listed at the bottom
To send as an attachment
- Open up a message by double clicking on it.
- Within Message tab, in the 'Respond' group, click on More to get a drop-down option of forwarding/sending as an attachment
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- Outlook for Mac
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To view the source
- Right-click the message within your folder listing.
- Select "View Source" from the drop-down menu. A window will open showing the header information of the selected message.
To forward a message as an attachment
- Click HOME tab.
- Select Message.
- Click the "Forward this message as Attachment" button from within the ribbon bar to forward the message as an attachment.
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