Sending Your Mail Headers

Requirements

This document presumes you're using a Wake Forest laptop with a recent standard load.

Headers are useful to technicians because they show the machines that received a message, along with message IDs that can be used to look up what each machine did for a message.

If you use Mozilla

  1. Go to the message
  2. Click on the "View" Menu
  3. Click on the "Headers" Option
  4. Click on "Full". This should add some gibberish to the area where the "subject" is normally shown.
  5. Click the "Forward" button
  6. Mail the message to the person who needs the headers
  7. Re-select "View -> Headers", and select "Normal". This should remove the gibberish from your messages.

If you don't use Mozilla

Email me, and I'll add directions for your email program.

John Borwick