Forwarding Full Mail Headers

The information on this page may be useful to you if you have ever received unwanted or dubious email. You may be asked to either view and/or forward to MIT StopIt full headers of email messages you receive. The header information can be extremely helpful to us in determining from where a message originated. Follow the instructions below to learn how to view and forward full mail headers with your mail client. If you are using a mail client not listed here, please contact the Help Desk.

Note: This page contains instructions for both IS&T supported and non-supported email clients. Currently MS Outlook and Apple Mail are fully supported by IS&T.

MS Outlook 2003

1. Start MS Outlook 2003 and double click the message to get it in its own window.
2. Go to the View menu and select Options.
3. Right click in the Internet Headers box and choose Select All.
4. Right click again in the Internet Headers box and choose Copy.
5. Paste the copied text into email to MIT Stopit.

MS Outlook Express

1. Start MS Outlook Express and double click the message for display in its own window.
2. Go to the File menu and select Properties.
3. Click the Details tab to view the header.
4. Right click in the Internet Headers box and choose Select All.
5. Right click again in the Internet Headers box and choose Copy.
6. Paste the copied text into email to MIT Stopit.

Apple Mail

1. Start Apple Mail.
2. Go to the View menu and select Message and then Long Headers.
3. Forward the message, with your complaints, comments and any information you feel would be helpful to MIT Stopit.

Eudora

1. Start Eudora.
2. Double click on the message to view.
3. Click the blah blah blah button, directly above the message. This should expand the headers.
4. Forward the message, with your complaints, comments and any information you feel would be helpful to MIT Stopit.

Google Mail (Gmail)

1. Click on the More options command near the top of a message.
2. Click on the Show original command near the end of the list of command options.
3. Select all of the text, copy it, and paste it into email to MIT Stopit.

MIT Webmail

1. Log into MIT Webmail.
2. Open message by clicking on Subject.
3. Click Message Source.
   Result: You should now see the full header information.
4. Select the entire text, copy and then paste the copied text into email to MIT Stopit.

Mozilla Thunderbird

1. Start Mozilla Thunderbird.
2. Go to the View menu and select Headers and then All.
3. Forward the message, with your complaints, comments and any information you feel would be helpful to MIT Stopit.

Pine

Note: Pine may not be initially configured to view full headers.

To set up Pine to view full headers:

1. Type M to go to main menu.
2. Type S to enter setup screen.
3. Type C to configure features.
4. Press the space bar to page down until you see:
   
   [] enable-full-header-cmd
   
   
5. Cursor down to this and type X to set.
6. Type E to exit and they Y to accept changes.
7. When viewing message, type H to view full headers.
8. Forward the message, with your complaints, comments and any information you feel would be helpful to MIT Stopit.

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