last seen 2 weeks 16 hours agoHello, all,
I would like to see more header information from received e-mail in Hotmail. Specifically, I would like to see the originating IP address for the e-mail message. I have searched through Hotmail's Help Section, which was of no help. What they have is to go to the e-mail and right-click and select "view source" but that is for the page source and does not give the originating IP address.
I did find this discussion:
"trying to view source headers in hotmail and not seeing where to do it..." http://grownupgeek.com/view-header-hotmail
I tried to find the avdanced header option that Hubby suggested and was not able to find that or anything similar and was obviously unsuccessful.
Does anyone know how to view the header source in Hotmail?
If I had my e-mails automatically directed to my Yahoo account would I be able to view the orignating e-mail message's IP address?
Thanks in advance for your help and happy early Easter!
I tried this and it does not work, i right click on the message and all i get is the usual things, something im doing wrong ?
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Did you switch toi the new view of Hotmail? I can't remember what it is called, but you have to switch from the Classic view, you can switch back after.
Thank you!
i posted this in another thread previously. i don't have time right now to condense it so i'll just paste the whole thing. it explains how to use the email view source, not the page view source. besides the below, you can use outlook to read your hotmail but i personally refuse to use outlook.
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i have just found this trick to get full headers in hotmail after months of searching. for anyone who doesn't know, hotmail took away the ability to see full headers in hotmail months ago when they started forcing migration to Windows Live Hotmail. there was just literally no way to do see anything but the basic headers. now, in the "Classic" version of Windows Hotmail, there is still no way, which annoys me because that is what i use. but there is a way now in the full version.
if you use the full version of Windows Live Hotmail, what you have to do is right click on a message in the message list and choose view source, then the headers will popup. now, don't do this in the reading pane (where you read the message) or you will get nothing useful. the place you have to right click is in your list of messages where it has the sender and subject (where you would click on to open the message). instead of clicking on it to read the message, right click on that line and choose view source there.
if like me, you use the classic version because the full version crashes and/or slows your computer to a halt, you can easily switch between the two just long enough to get the header. there is that link at the bottom of the page to switch to the full version or if you don't see that you can go to options and the link is there too. you can switch back to classic the same way - there is a link in one of the panes to switch to classic or you can go to options and the link is there.
this is a pain in the ass and i don't know what they were thinking taking away the headers in the classic version and hiding the ability in the new full version but anyway, that is how you can do it.
i switched to yahoo after they started this change to the new hotmail, which i would suggest for anyone who uses hotmail. not necessarily yahoo, although i'm happy with it - gmail is good of course or some other email - but just switching away from hotmail. i just use my hotmail account now for online stuff or people i don't know.