Show "For" field

[david]

I receive mail To: Fred, which has been CC'd or BCC'd to me (Tom).

When I look at the Internet Headers (in Options for the mail message), I see
that the message was For: Tom (me).

Is there a way to get Outlook to display this field?

(david)

 

[Kenneth]

I receive mail To: Fred, which has been CC'd or BCC'd to me (Tom).

When I look at the Internet Headers (in Options for the mail message), I see
that the message was For: Tom (me).

Is there a way to get Outlook to display this field?

(david)

Howdy,

Perhaps I am not correctly interpreting your need, but...

There does not seem to be a "For" field, but there are Bcc,
and cc fields that may give you what you need:

View | Current View | Customize Current View | Fields

(and be sure that the dropdown is set to display all
fields.)

All the best,

 

[VanguardLH]

I receive mail To: Fred, which has been CC'd or BCC'd to me (Tom).
When I look at the Internet Headers (in Options for the mail
message), I see that the message was For: Tom (me). Is there a way to
get Outlook to display this field?

There is no "For" named header. You are probably seeing a parameter
field within a "Received" header (which got wrapped to another line due
to its length). E-mail clients do not display the Received headers
because, well, there are usually two, or more, of them. They may
specify the sender, they may specify the recipient, they may specify
both (but in different Received headers) but they may not specify
anything other than the mail servers through which the e-mail passed.

 

[david]

There is no "For" named header. You are probably seeing a parameter
field within a "Received" header (which got wrapped to another line due
to its length). E-mail clients do not display the Received headers
because, well, there are usually two, or more, of them. They may
specify the sender, they may specify the recipient, they may specify
both (but in different Received headers) but they may not specify
anything other than the mail servers through which the e-mail passed.

Yes, that describes what I see --

Ok, now that I've learned that, a better question: is there any way
in outlook to see what mail address the message was addressed to?
Because the To: field in the Message header isn't that?

(david)

 

[VanguardLH]

Yes, that describes what I see --

Ok, now that I've learned that, a better question: is there any way
in outlook to see what mail address the message was addressed to?
Because the To: field in the Message header isn't that?

(david)

There is no guarantee that you will ever see to whom an e-mail was
addressed. The To, Cc, Bcc, Date, Subject, and From headers are *data*.
A message is comprised of a header section, blank delimiter lines, and
the body. Those data headers go *in* the message and are NOT used to
address the e-mail. The e-mail client compiles an aggregate list of
recipients from the To, Cc, and Bcc *fields* within its UI. It then
uses that list to send RCPT-TO commands to the mail server, one RCPT-TO
for each recipient in the list. It then follows with a single DATA
command to send the message (which remember is the header section, blank
delimiter line, and body comprising the entire message).

The recipients never get to see the list of RCPT-TO commands that were
sent by the sender's e-mail client to their mail server. They only get
to see the *data* headers that the sender's e-mail client inserted into
the message along with the prepended headers from each mail host through
which that e-mail passed. The Received headers help trace the route the
message took from sender to recipient but there is no requirement for a
"FOR" parameter in any of them.

Most likely the "FOR" parameter was in the last prepended (topmost)
Received header. That was YOUR mail server receiving the message. It
was told via a RCPT-TO command (from the sending mail server) who was
the recipient. So your receiving mail server knows to whose mailbox it
will deliver the message, and it is the one that probably added the
"FOR" parameter. That doesn't help you any because that it got into
your mailbox for you to find it there is already obvious that your
receiving mail server was told to put it there. You finding it in your
mailbox means it was addressed to you. You don't need to find yourself
listed in any header to verify that.

 

[david]

There is no guarantee that you will ever see to whom an e-mail was
addressed. The To, Cc, Bcc, Date, Subject, and From headers are *data*.
A message is comprised of a header section, blank delimiter lines, and
the body. Those data headers go *in* the message and are NOT used to
address the e-mail. The e-mail client compiles an aggregate list of
recipients from the To, Cc, and Bcc *fields* within its UI. It then
uses that list to send RCPT-TO commands to the mail server, one RCPT-TO
for each recipient in the list. It then follows with a single DATA
command to send the message (which remember is the header section, blank
delimiter line, and body comprising the entire message).

The recipients never get to see the list of RCPT-TO commands that were
sent by the sender's e-mail client to their mail server. They only get
to see the *data* headers that the sender's e-mail client inserted into
the message along with the prepended headers from each mail host through
which that e-mail passed. The Received headers help trace the route the
message took from sender to recipient but there is no requirement for a
"FOR" parameter in any of them.

Most likely the "FOR" parameter was in the last prepended (topmost)
Received header. That was YOUR mail server receiving the message. It
was told via a RCPT-TO command (from the sending mail server) who was
the recipient. So your receiving mail server knows to whose mailbox it
will deliver the message, and it is the one that probably added the
"FOR" parameter. That doesn't help you any because that it got into
your mailbox for you to find it there is already obvious that your
receiving mail server was told to put it there. You finding it in your
mailbox means it was addressed to you. You don't need to find yourself
listed in any header to verify that.

That's too bad: if you have multiple mail addresses, it seems such an
obvious question that you would have thought that Exchange would
pass the data to Outlook.

Thank you for the education :~)

(david)

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

That's too bad: if you have multiple mail addresses, it seems such an
obvious question that you would have thought that Exchange would
pass the data to Outlook.

Most mail clients include the actual recipient in the To header, so usually
the To field is the actual recipient. If you have multiple mail addresses
and each of them received a different address, you can asss the "E-mail
Account" column to the INbox header line as that will give you an idea of
the address to which the message was actually sent.