This enables to you browse through your emails without actually having to download all the emails andtheir attachments in their entirety, which can often be a lengthy task.

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• Right-click inside the headers and choose Select All, then right-click again and choose Copy the content. View Full Headers in Outlook 2013-2016 for PC. Open the message in its own window. On the File tab, select Properties. Header information appears in the Internet headers box.
• Select a folder from the list of folders in the Folder Optionssection and then choose the option Download headers only. It is possible to have different setting for each folder in an account, so, for example, you could set Outlook to download only headers in a folder that you know gets a large volume of emails.

Note: This works only for POP3, not for IMAP protocol...

To configure Outlook to download only the e-mail headers, do the following:

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1. On the Send / Receive tab, in the Send & Receivegroup, choose Send/Receive Groups:

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2. In the Send/Receive Group list, choose Define Send/ReceiveGroups... (or press Ctrl+Alt+S):

3. Select a group to modify and click Edit....

4. From the Accounts section on the left side of the dialog box,you can select the mail account that you want to modify the settings for.

5. Check the Include the selected account in this group checkbox to see all the options:

6. Select a folder from the list of folders in the Folder Optionssection and then choose the option Download headers only.

It is possible to have different setting for each folder in an account, so, for example, you could setOutlook to download only headers in a folder that you know gets a large volume of emails.

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Note: This works only for POP3, not for IMAP protocol...:

See also this tip in French:Comment configurer Outlook pour télécharger uniquement les en-têtes de messagerie.

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If you are having problems with your email, one common diagnostic aid is a complete list of the message's headers. Headers show the path a message took to get from the sender to the recipient. The IT Service Desk or other technical support may ask you to provide a message's headers.

1. Right-click (or ctrl-click) the message in your Inbox or other folder (do not open the message).
2. From the menu that appears, select View Source.

Your text editor (typically an application called TextEdit) will open, displaying all the headers for the message, followed by the message body.

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If you need to copy the headers (to paste somewhere else),

1. Drag over the text from the beginning of the text to the beginning of the body of the message.
2. Press command-c on your keyboard; this copies the highlighted text to the clipboard.
3. Then, with an email message or other document open, press command-v to paste the header text into that document.