How-to View Outlook Email Header

Created by Jason Carreiro, Modified on Tue, 10 Dec at 1:46 PM by Yves Lacombe

How To View Outlook Email Header:

A Microsoft Outlook user can easily view complete email header data to get details information about a received mail. You can view email header information in all Outlook versions by following the steps below.

  1. Open your Microsoft Outlook client.
  2. Double-click the message whose header data you wish to see. 
  3. After the message opens, navigate to File > Properties.
  4. Look under Internet Headers for the email header data.

There are a number of third party sites that will help you to read this information in a more manageable format. This mostly involves copying and pasting this information into these websites