How to forward / store complete e-mail (mainly headers)

[Freaky]

Hey there,

if I drag an e-mail to the desktop or send it as attachment it's stored
as a .msg file. Not sure if it's the difference between .eml and .msg,
but the .msg doesn't seem to have the headers the e-mail has. It seems
to contain some binary stuff in the top of the message if I open it with
notepad, which seems to include AD paths and exchange mailstores.

I'd like to have a copy of the e-mail, with intact headers thus, is this
possible?

Regards

 

[Brian Tillman]

if I drag an e-mail to the desktop or send it as attachment it's
stored as a .msg file. Not sure if it's the difference between .eml
and .msg, but the .msg doesn't seem to have the headers the e-mail
has.

Outlook generates .msg files. Outlook Express generates .eml files.

It seems to contain some binary stuff in the top of the message
if I open it with notepad, which seems to include AD paths and
exchange mailstores.

You bet. It IS a binary file, correctly readable only by Outlook.

I'd like to have a copy of the e-mail, with intact headers thus, is
this possible?

Cut and paste to a text file, then.

 

[Freaky]

Cut and paste to a text file, then.

Not really viable. For some spamfilters to learn stuff you need to send
them the message, with in-tact headers ofcourse. This is kinda difficult
if it's in a proprietary format.

Anyways, thanks for the re'

Regards

 

[Brian Tillman]

Not really viable. For some spamfilters to learn stuff you need to
send them the message, with in-tact headers ofcourse. This is kinda
difficult if it's in a proprietary format.

That's why SpamCop has an "Outlook workaround" wherein you paste first the
Internet headers, then the message body. Outlook does not provide any way
to see the raw source of the message.

If you use Pocketknife Peek (http://www.xintercept.com/pkpeek.htm), it's
fairly easy to cut and paste because the headers and body are on tabs of the
same window.

 

[Freaky]

Thanks man, atleast it's clear now. It also explains why I didn't find a
whole lot on google