# headers in email

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/headers-in-email/120652>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 24, 2002, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/headers-in-email/120652 "2002-07-24T23:35:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![koawala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bb73d2/32.png) [@koawala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koawala)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/headers-in-email/120652/1 "2002-07-24T23:35:24Z")

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How do I find the headers in a email? I’m using Netscape. I need to find them and can’t get them.

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**Author:** ![Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gut)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/headers-in-email/120652/2 "2002-07-25T01:03:13Z")

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Have an e-mail selected then:

View -\> Headers -\> All

That should do it.

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**Author:** ![koawala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bb73d2/32.png) [@koawala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koawala)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/headers-in-email/120652/3 "2002-07-26T00:08:25Z")

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I have tried that and nothing happens. Could I be missing some software?

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**Author:** ![Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gut)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/headers-in-email/120652/4 "2002-07-26T01:26:54Z")

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Weird. What version of Netscape are you using? In the meantime you could forward the e-mail to a Yahoo or Hotmail and view the headers there.