8000 Incorporated (EIGH)

[P2O I'm from MO]

Hotmail:

The "Classic" version of hotmail webmail does not give you an option to see header, if you want to see headers you have to switch to the full version.

• Log into Hotmail.
• Click on "Options" tab on the top navigation bar.
• Under Options you will see the following message, "You are using the classic version of Windows Live Hotmail. Have a fast connection and want more features? Try the full version to see message previews in your inbox. (It's free, too.)"
• Click on the "Try the full version" link.
• Click on "I want the Free Upgrade..", button
• To view the full email message header, right click the email message displayed in your list of messages. A menu will pop-up. Click on the View source option in this menu, and a new window will open. This window will display the full email headers.


How to See a MSN Hotmail Email Header

To be able to perform a MSN Hotmail member lookup, you have to learn how to expose the entire email header. In most cases, just the "to" and "from" email information will be shown, along with the date and time.

To see all header lines while using MSN Hotmail, you will need to go to your MSN Hotmail navigation bar. There you should select "options" and the "mail category." When in this section, choose "mail display settings" and then set your message headers to full. After clicking "OK," you can return to your inbox and view the full headers on any of your messages.

GMail:

It's very easy to dig into a given email message and learn more about its headers. The secret is the tiny little "More options" link that appears adjacent to the time and date that the message was sent on the header line.

That's where all the options are hiding in Gmail. Notice that you can reply to the sender, reply to everyone on the recipient list, forward, print, add sender to contacts list, trash this message, report phishing and... the last option... "Show original". Click on that link and you'll be shown the exact header of the message, including the Gmail-added header "X-Gmail-Received".