In Imail, how do I display and send the full headers of an email message?
Note: At Indiana University, Imail uses Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA) for its web interface. Many Exchange OWA interface features are also available in Imail. OWA is a secure web site with two distinct interfaces, depending on which web browser you use. UITS highly recommends the Premium interface rather than the Light; for details, see In Outlook Web Access (OWA), what are the "Premium" and "Light" interfaces?
In Imail, to send the full headers of an email message you have received, you must use the OWA Premium interface. If you cannot access the Premium interface from your computer, you can configure a desktop email client to access your account, and then follow full header sending instructions appropriate to your client; see Configuring a desktop email client for Imail or Umail.
In the Imail OWA Premium interface, to send full headers, first display the headers, and then insert them into the body of an email message.
Displaying full headers
To display full message headers:
- Double-click the mail message to open it in its own window.
- Click the message details button on the toolbar (the envelope with a small document over the bottom right corner of the icon).
The message headers are at the bottom of the window, in a box labeled "Headers:" or "Internet headers:".
Inserting headers into a message
To insert the headers into an email message:
- Select all the headers by clicking and dragging the cursor from
the top left corner to the bottom right corner of the header text.
- Press
Ctrl-cto copy the headers.
- Create a new email message, click in its main text
window, and then press
Ctrl-vto paste the headers.
Important: Many students are employed in some capacity by Indiana University, and many use email in the course of their employment, either to communicate with their co-workers and supervisors or to carry out their job responsibilities. Because Imail and Umail accounts are hosted by vendors external to IU, student employees may use these accounts to conduct university business only if they do not receive or transmit any sensitive data via these accounts. For more, see Student use of email for work-related purposes.
Last modified on May 13, 2009.
