Outlook For Mac View Headers

Contents • • • • • Introduction to headers In most situations, people are interested in seeing only the first few headers on a message ( From, To, Cc, Subject, and Date), so most email programs such as Gmail, Outlook, Thunderbird and Apple Mail display only those when the recipient reads the message or forwards it. The rest of the headers are masked. Unfortunately, those first few headers are easy to forge, and this commonly occurs in cases of harassment, viruses, junk email, or chain-letters. Fortunately, the Received: headers are extremely difficult to forge and can be used to identify the source of the offensive email. If you report a case of harassment, abuse, unsolicited commercial email, chain-letters, phishing or other potentially harmful communication, you will need to send a complete copy of the message with full email headers to NC State Postmasters. Full headers allow them to track a message back to the IP address from which it was sent; a message without full headers cannot be tracked. What full headers look like —————–Begin Example of Full Header—————– Delivered-To: jqncsu@ncsu.edu Received: by 10.220.150.3 with SMTP id w3cs127581vcv; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 14:49:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.156.33 with SMTP id l21mr9893981yhk.974722; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:49:34 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: from uni02mi.unity.ncsu.edu (uni02mi.unity.ncsu.edu.

Press Ctrl-A (command-A on a Mac) to select the message headers. Microsoft Outlook for Mac. Outlook for mac opens but cant press any buttons. Control-click the scam email and then click View Source. Download tsk 4 for osx.