Allow views to show SMTP Headers for better SPAM and Malicious Co.

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If Exchange and/or Outlook could parse the SMTP Headers (From: and first
sender from Received:) a user could examine this pertinent information before
opening a possible SPAM, malicious, or offensive email.

I teach user to use the right click menu and Options… menu and wade through
all the headers to find the From: and then work back up to the first
Received: and then check for consistency. This is not perfect because the
domain name in the Received: can be spoofed, however it works for 90% or more
suspicious emails.

Our filtering, etc. gets most stuff, however, having this ability would
greatly help a user be proactive and self sufficient when it came to SPAM,
malicious, or offensive email.

Also, if the To: SMTP header was available, it would be easy to see what
SMTP address the sender sent to. I have multiple email addresses on my
mailbox in Exchange, some more public than others.
 
With ISP's requiring users to include the Email Header when reporting
abuse/spam email, most users will not bother with filing these claims because
of the present way to supply this information. Being in IT, its a headache
even for me to take the extra time to open the email, open the options, copy
and paste the header information and then send the email.

If there was an option to turn on Email Headers, this would save ALOT of
time and headaches.
 
google for "pocketknife peek" - it's much easier.

FWIW, very few people bother reporting spam because it's a useless waste of
time with so much of the spam sent via zombies and with fake email addresses.
If a user can't properly read headers and dechiper where it really came from,
the false reports wastes the ISPs time too. - too many, and they won't even
bother to read them.
 
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