opening message source

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Sy

How do you open message source without opening the actual
message in Outlook?

In Outlook Express, you can do this by right clicking on
the email in question, select properties, select details,
select message source and be able to read the content of
the email before actually opening it.


Thanks,
Sy
 
How are you going to read something without reading it? You want to
read the message but not read it?

Maybe what you really meant is that you want to view the headers of an
e-mail without also having to download its body. In Outlook, open the
message in its own window (double-click on it) and use the View ->
Options menu, or right-click on the e-mail item in the list and select
Options. That will show you the headers. Of course, you will still end
up downloading the entire message into Outlook on a mail poll unless you
configure Outlook to download headers-only AND you turn off the Preview
pane.
 
Hi,

I guess you didn'n get him right. I have the same problem like Sy.

I'm using Outlook 2000 SP-3 and sometimes I want to have a look at the
source code of the entire message (not only the headers) because the message
looks like spam or seems to contain some virus or worm. And then I don't
want to open it in its own window! And furthermore - if I right-click on the
opened message and choose "View Source" I just see the source of the message
body.

Is anyone here having the same problem?

Can anyone give me a hint or solution to this problem?


Bjoern
 
Vanguard said:
How are you going to read something without reading it? You want to
read the message but not read it?

Maybe what you really meant is that you want to view the headers of an
e-mail without also having to download its body. In Outlook, open the
message in its own window (double-click on it) and use the View ->
Options menu, or right-click on the e-mail item in the list and select
Options. That will show you the headers. Of course, you will still
end up downloading the entire message into Outlook on a mail poll
unless you configure Outlook to download headers-only AND you turn
off the Preview pane.
Click to expand...

Hmm, opening the message in its own window would open it (and force a
download of the body). So there are 2 ways to look the headers that I
can think of (this is from memory since I don't have Outlook open right
now):

- Close the Preview pane. Select the message from the list and
right-click on it. Select Options to see if you can see just the
headers that got downloaded.

- In OL2002, Tools -> Send/Receive Settings -> Define Send/Receive
Groups -> select your group and Edit -> select your e-mail account ->
select the option to only download the headers (probably called
"download item description only"). That will ONLY download the headers
of pending e-mails on your mail server. You can choose to delete the
messages before downloading their bodies. Presumably you can still
right-click on a message to use Options to see the headers of the
header-only downloaded message. However, for those messages that you do
want to read, you will now have to use the menus (or a custom toolbar)
to download the message bodies for the wanted e-mails.
 
Björn Schlaak said:
Hi,

I guess you didn'n get him right. I have the same problem like Sy.

I'm using Outlook 2000 SP-3 and sometimes I want to have a look at the
source code of the entire message (not only the headers) because the
message looks like spam or seems to contain some virus or worm. And
then I don't want to open it in its own window! And furthermore - if
I right-click on the opened message and choose "View Source" I just
see the source of the message body.

Is anyone here having the same problem?

Can anyone give me a hint or solution to this problem?


Bjoern
Click to expand...

A couple of ideas:

1. Use SpamPal with its Quarantine plug-in (and the others, too, which
help increase coverage of detected spam). For e-mails that SpamPal
detects are spam, the Quarantine plug-in will save a text-only copy of
the e-mail including headers and body. Even if the e-mail were HTML
formatted, the quarantined copy is plain text (with HTML tags preserved
but since you'll be looking at the .txt file with Notepad then it
doesn't get rendered in IE).

2. Get the SpamSource plug-in. You can select the e-mail from the list
and click the SpamSource toolbar button to insert a copy of the e-mail
(as text) into the clipboard. Makes it handy when reporting e-mails and
wanting to include the body but not as an HTML-formatted message.
Again, all the tags are still there but it is in plain-text format.
However, I have had problems with this plug-in. When it adds its button
to the toolbar, my "X" delete buttons disappeared. I'd add them, they'd
stick until I restarted Outlook, they were gone, I'd add them, and so
on. When I disabled or uninstall the plug-in, I then had as many "X"
buttons as I had added that kept disappearing. Sometimes on exiting
Outlook, this plug-in would crash or hang and do the same to Outlook. I
liked it but it causes too many problems for me. They have a freebie
version and a registered version (but the freebie gives you almost all
the functionality as the registered paid version).
 
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