Email Message Headers

Hi,
I'm trying to track bounced emails using a custom header when I send them.
When I try to retrieve the bounced messages using POP3 I am unable to access the header information, even though I can see it in the message properties in Outlook.
Does anyone know a way to retrieve all the message headers in an email, or how to access the message properties as seen in Outlook?
Thanks,
Kevin.

If the server is working the way it is supposed to (and if I remember my RFC's correctly) the original message, including the headers, are in the body of the bounced message. The bounce message is a completely new message that was constructed with parts of the originals headers but does not have all the information. You'll have to write some kind of regular expression to pull the content out.

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Outlook and email message bodies

Hi all,
Is there any way to have Outlook download only email message headers, and download message bodies only when a message is viewed?
Thanks.
ssb

sbb,
this is the default operation of Outlook with OBEO in folders other than the Inbox: when you click on a folder that was not previously accessed by that very PC workstation, OBEO will start fetching the mail headers. Only mails that you select are fetched entirely.
You can configure this in the properties dialogue of the respective folder. Under "administration" you can choose to download fetch only headers or complete messages.
In the current absense of server based search for OBEO downloading only headers has the serious consequence that a text body search will return empty results, even if they should be there: OBEO only has its cache to base searches on (I would favour an implementation that fetches the complete messages when a text body search is done - I think Thunderbird acts similarly).
Whole trees of mail directories can be set to the same download mode in one run in one of the options dialogues. Setting a lot of folders to complete message download can make OBEO appear a bit sluggish on not-so-current PC workstations.
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i want to change the layout of my email messages so that the message is at the side of the headers not below them. i have just downloaded mozilla thunderbird on to my new laptop at i cant get the layout that I prefer back. please help . thanks june

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There's some email lists that I subscribe to, with automated earthquake and volcano information, and recently the emails are blank, when I view them using Mac Mail. However, if I check my email with a browser, I can see the content of the message. If I look at these emails in Mail with the Raw Source, they are still blank. Does anybody know what is up? Someone thought perhaps a newer version of Mail is pickier about html. I've not found anyone else with the same problem in my office, and I don't see a mention of it on the discussion boards.
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First off, view the Long Header details (from Mail, choose View > Message > Long Headers; from MobileMe Mail, the gearbox button (list of actions) > Preferences > Viewing > Enable "Show Long Headers"). This exposes a whole lot of heretofore invisible data.
Making sense of it is another issue, but I think I may have found something (from a Mac user, to boot) that seems to hit the nail right on the head.
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+"It is my opinion, (based upon more than ten years worth of fighting spam, ten years of running web sites, and extensive research) that these blank emails (in my experience), and millions like them are part of a growing spam problem. These blank email messages represent part of a spammers whitelisting effort. Responses which generate bounce messages permit the spammer to refine his/her recipient list, while the ones that get delivered are marked as valid addressees. These lists are then used by the spammer in his/her own campaign, sold to other spammers, or both."+
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Is there a easy way within Mail.app to forward another email message as an attachment? I use a anti-spam service that requires you to email them spam messages as attachments in order for them to learn how to block that type of spam. I can't seem to just drag a message into the new messasge window and I don't see another option working.

I don't believe this is possible with Mail.
I understand this is what they specifically want but have you asked?
Since all email clients do not support this, I find it difficult to believe they will flat out refuse to accept the required information any other way which is the long message headers for the received message which is easy to reveal and then forward.

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That doesn't explain, however why I cannot print any email sent to many correspondents with just a condensed recipient list (6 addresses more or less then an option to expand the remaining list) the same way I view it in the Apple Mail browser.
You can print such emails, though the recipient list may not be as long or short as you like. If you select a message and open it, you can then choose to display it with Long Headers, which will show you 4 or more recipients; or as Raw Source, which will show every minute detail of that received email. Other than that, you have no control over what is displayed.
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starman7 wrote:
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Query on email message via dreamweaver mail form

Hello All,
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<label>Your Email Address:<br />
<input name="email" type="text" id="email" />
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<br />
<label>Your Message:<br />
<textarea name="message" cols="50" rows="10" id="message"></textarea>
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<br />
<br />
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" />
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recursive_array_check_header($_REQUEST);
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if(isset($_REQUEST['email']) && !empty($_REQUEST['email']))
if(preg_match("/(%0A|%0D|\n+|\r+|:)/i",$_REQUEST['email'])){$errors[] = "Email address may not contain a new line or a colon";}
$_REQUEST['email'] = trim($_REQUEST['email']);
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if(count($errors)){foreach($errors as $value){print "$value<br>";} exit;}
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$message = $message . PHP_EOL.PHP_EOL."-- ".PHP_EOL."";
$message = stripslashes($message);
$subject = "TOP FLOOR WEBSITE ENQUIRY";
$headers = "From: " . $_REQUEST['email'];
mail($my_email,$subject,$message,$headers);
?>
Thanks alot in advance

Wow. Not much defeats legibilty quite as well as avoiding line feeds and indention in recursive code! (and inserting multiple blank lines? Was that this online editor?)
Anyway, I did not test this, but try replacing your build_message function,
function build_message($request_input){if(!isset($message_output)){$message_output ="";}if(!is_array($request_input)){$message_output = $request_input;}else{foreach($request_input as $key => $value){if(!empty($value)){if(!is_numeric($key)){$message_output .= str_replace("_"," ",ucfirst($key)).": ".build_message($value).PHP_EOL.PHP_EOL;}else{$message_output .= build_message($value).", ";}}}}return rtrim($message_output,", ");}
With this:
function build_message($request_input) {
if(!isset($message_output)) {
    $message_output ="";
if(!is_array($request_input)) {
    $message_output = $request_input;
else{
    foreach($request_input as $key => $value) {
      if(!empty($value)) {
        if(!is_numeric($key)) {
          $message_output .= str_replace("_"," ",ucfirst($key)).": ".build_message($value).PHP_EOL.PHP_EOL;
        else {
          if ($key != strtolower('submit') {
            $message_output .= build_message($value).", ";
return rtrim($message_output,", ");
(Added condition for 'submit')
Also, I highly recommend replacing all those $_REQUEST with $_POST or $_GET, whichever is appropriate for your form.
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Strange email messages

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Message was edited by: carolbl

Looks like you inadvertently turned on 'Full Message Headers'
In Mail Preferences, Viewing, set Message Detail to 'Default' or 'none' instead of 'Full'

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