How To View An Email Header?

Proceed with the steps given below on how to view an email header on various clients.

E-mail headers consist of the sender and recipient information and are used to identify the route of the e-mail. You can use the information on the e-mail header to detect and prevent spam. It gives you the exact network path of the e-mail between the sender and receiver. The e-mail header in a message is usually hidden.

Viewing An E-Mail Header In Gmail:

• Step 1: Log in to your Gmail account using the login credentials.
• Step 2: Open the e-mail message for which you want to view the header.
• Step 3: Click on the More icon and select the Show Original option from the displayed list.
• Step 4: You can now view the e-mail header of the message.
• Step 5: If you want to download the e-mail header, click on the Download Original button.
• Step 6: Scroll down to the bottom of the screen to view the e-mail header in HTML format.
• Step 7: Click Copy to clipboard option to copy the e-mail header.

Viewing An e-mail header in Yahoo:

• Step 1: Launch your web browser and enter the official Yahoo website.
• Step 2: Log in to your Yahoo account using the username and password.
• Step 3: Navigate to the Inbox folder and open the e-mail to view the header.
• Step 4: Click More and select the View raw message option to view the e-mail header for the message.

How To View An Email Header In Microsoft Outlook?:

• Step 1: Press the Start menu from your Windows computer.
• Step 2: Type Outlook in the Search section, and select Outlook.
• Step 3: When the Outlook application opens, go to the Inbox folder.
• Step 4: Open the e-mail message for which you want to view the e-mail header.
• Step 5: Go to the File menu and select the Properties option from the list.
• Step 6: In the Properties window, the e-mail header will be present in the Internet header section.
• Step 7: Otherwise, click on the More icon on the top-right corner of the e-mail message and select the View message source option to view the e-mail header.

Viewing an e-mail header in Thunderbird: