Viewing Source for email messages in Outlook?

[teelbee]

(I hope this is the right place to post this...)

In Outlook Express, I can right click a message to View
Source. This not only reveals message headers, but the
contents of the email message. This is handy for
screening potentially junk emails.

Is that functionality missing from Outlook 2000?

I cannot find a way to do that in Outlook 2000, which
seems strange.

I can view message headers, but not the email body content
in source view. I couldn't find anything in Outlook help
when searching "view source".

~~~TIA for any assistance!

Teelbee

~~~Teelbee

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Outlook doesn't support viewing the full source - you'll need to copy and
paste it together. The reason is because Outlook began as the exchange
client where there aren't headers and users typically don't look at them.

Outlook 2003 has a registry key you can set to view source -
http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/view_source.htm

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[Guest]

I don't like to open emails from people I'm unsure about,
so copy/paste wouldn't serve my purpose here.

You see, using Outlook Exchange and viewing the full
source was a safer way to confirm if a questionable
message was junk mail or not.

How odd that the "lite" version has that great
functionality, but the full version doesn't.

Oh, well.

Thanks for clarifying that for me - I kept looking and
looking for a way to do that, but now that I know it's
futile, I can stop.

~~~Teelbee

-----Original Message-----
Outlook doesn't support viewing the full source - you'll need to copy and
paste it together. The reason is because Outlook began as the exchange
client where there aren't headers and users typically don't look at them.

Outlook 2003 has a registry key you can set to view source -
http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/view_source.htm

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)


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(I hope this is the right place to post this...)

In Outlook Express, I can right click a message to View
Source. This not only reveals message headers, but the
contents of the email message. This is handy for
screening potentially junk emails.

Is that functionality missing from Outlook 2000?

I cannot find a way to do that in Outlook 2000, which
seems strange.

I can view message headers, but not the email body content
in source view. I couldn't find anything in Outlook help
when searching "view source".

~~~TIA for any assistance!

Teelbee

~~~Teelbee

.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Outlook is not a "full version" of Outlook Express.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



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