View the Source of a Junk Email in Your Email Program or Service
Every email contains routing information that allows it to be traced back at least a few hops. For spam, this means you can often identify the origin and send effective complaints. Find out how to view the source of any email in your email program or service here.
AIM Mail: How to View the Source of a Message
The source of an email message can be used to trace it to its original sender, for example. In AIM Mail, getting the source is easy.
The source of an email message can be used to trace it to its original sender, for example. In AIM Mail, getting the source is easy.
Eudora: How to View the Source of an Email Message
Getting to view the complete, full and total source of an email in Eudora is a bit of an adventure, but it works.
Getting to view the complete, full and total source of an email in Eudora is a bit of an adventure, but it works.
Evolution: How to View the Source of an Email Message
Look behind an email's curtain and see the source in Ximian Evolution.
Look behind an email's curtain and see the source in Ximian Evolution.
FastMail: How to View the Raw Source of an Email
If you want to know what path an email took or what its HTML source looks like, here's how to take a raw look at email messages in FastMail.
If you want to know what path an email took or what its HTML source looks like, here's how to take a raw look at email messages in FastMail.
Gmail: How to View the Source of a Message
To trace an email, view hidden headers and reveal HTML code behinds its display, open its source in Gmail.
To trace an email, view hidden headers and reveal HTML code behinds its display, open its source in Gmail.
Hotmail: How to View the Source and Feed SpamCop
Trace, analyze and report the spam you receive at Hotmail with ease, and with the help of SpamCop.
Trace, analyze and report the spam you receive at Hotmail with ease, and with the help of SpamCop.
Inbox.com: How to View the Full Source of an Email Message
Learn about what makes an email look the way it does or where it came from, by displaying its source in Inbox.com.
Learn about what makes an email look the way it does or where it came from, by displaying its source in Inbox.com.
IncrediMail: How to View the Source of a Message
A bit of archeology is involved, but you can do that, you can dig the sources in IncrediMail.
A bit of archeology is involved, but you can do that, you can dig the sources in IncrediMail.
KMail: How to View the Source of a Message
Have KMail open the source to an email you have received so you can see all the details of how it is constructed, where it is coming from, and what servers it went through.
Have KMail open the source to an email you have received so you can see all the details of how it is constructed, where it is coming from, and what servers it went through.
Mac OS X Mail: How to View the Source of a Message
See it all. In Mac OS X Mail, looking at the source of an email message is easy.
See it all. In Mac OS X Mail, looking at the source of an email message is easy.
Mozilla Thunderbird or Netscape: How to View the Source of a Message
Hey Mozilla Thunderbird (hey, Mozilla; hey, Netscape), show me everything, in plain text.
Hey Mozilla Thunderbird (hey, Mozilla; hey, Netscape), show me everything, in plain text.
Windows Mail and Outlook Express: How to View a Message's Source
Look behind an email's pretty face and see its source in Windows Mail or Outlook Express. You can even view a message's source without opening the message itself.
Look behind an email's pretty face and see its source in Windows Mail or Outlook Express. You can even view a message's source without opening the message itself.
Outlook: How to View the Complete Message Source
Stop Outlook from throwing away the evidence. Here's how to make Outlook retain the original message source when it retrieves emails from the internet.
Stop Outlook from throwing away the evidence. Here's how to make Outlook retain the original message source when it retrieves emails from the internet.
Pegasus Mail: How to View the Source of a Message
Get the raw, raw view. Here's how to take a look at the message source in Pegasus Mail.
Get the raw, raw view. Here's how to take a look at the message source in Pegasus Mail.
Windows Live Hotmail: How to View an Email's Source
In Windows Live Hotmail, you can inspect a message's source (which contains routing information, all attachments in crude form and even HTML parts in their plain text code) without opening the message itself.
In Windows Live Hotmail, you can inspect a message's source (which contains routing information, all attachments in crude form and even HTML parts in their plain text code) without opening the message itself.