• Intro
• View Full Hdrs
  • Gmail
• Other Mail Services
  • aol
  • Excite Webmail
  • Hotmail
  • Yahoo Mail
  • Apple Mail
  • Mozilla
  • Opera
  • Outlook
  • Outlook Express
• How To Read Email Hdrs
• Is Msg Delayed

Trace an email with its full headers
For an email you received in Gmail, you can see where the email came from by
looking at its headers, including how it got from the sender to the
recipient's mail servers.



View your email's full headers
Gmail
From a browser, open Gmail.
Open the email you want to check the headers for.
Next to Reply Reply, click More More and then Show original.
The headers will show in a new window, including fields like authentication
results. To get the full message header, click Download original.



Other mail services


AOL 
Log in to your AOL account.
Open the email you want to see the headers for.
In the "Action" menu, select View Message Source.
The headers will show in a new window.



Excite Webmail
Log in to your Excite account.
Open the email you want to see the headers for.
Click View Full Headers.
The headers will show in a new window.



Hotmail
Log in to your Hotmail account.
Click Inbox.
Right-click the email you want to see the headers for.
Click View Message Source.
The headers will show in a new window.



Yahoo! Mail
Log in to your Yahoo! Mail account.
Select the email you want to see the headers for.
Click More and then View Raw Message.
The headers will show in a new window.



Apple Mail
Open Apple Mail.
Open the email you want to see the headers for.
Click View and then Message and then All Headers.
The headers will show in the window below your inbox.



Mozilla
Open Mozilla.
Open the email you want to see the headers for.
Click View and then  Message Source.
 
The headers will show in a new window.



Opera
Open Opera.
Click the email you want to see the headers for so it shows in the window
below your inbox.
Right click the body of the email.
Click View All Headers and Message.
The headers will show in the window below.



Outlook
Open Outlook.
Open the email you want to see the headers for.
Click File and then Properties.
The headers will show in the "Internet headers" box.



Outlook Express
Open Outlook Express.
Right click the email you want to see the headers for.
Click Properties.
Click the Details tab.
The headers will show in the box that pops up.



How to read email full headers
Open the email you want to check the headers for.
Next to Reply Reply, click More Moreand then Show original.
Copy the text on the page.
Open the Message header tool.
In "Paste email header here," paste your header.
Click Analyze the header above.



See if message is delayed
Open the email you want to check the headers for.
Next to Reply Reply, click More Moreand then Show original.
Next to "Created at," look to see how much time it took for the email to be
delivered after it was sent.