View/get Email Headers

View/get Email Headers

Email Message Headers are present in all the emails you send and receive via the internet. They have uniquely identifiable message ids, the sender, recipients, and the subject information and also present various diagnostic information which is useful for spam identification, message hops, delays and so on.

Steps to get the headers of an email in Zoho Mail:
  1. Login to mail.zoho.eu.
  2. Open the email whose headers you would like to view.
  3. Click the More Actions drop-down on the right corner of the email.



  4. Choose the Show Original option.
  5. With the message header details, you will also be able to see several options in the new window.



  6. In case you want to download the headers, click the Download Full Content option. The message headers will be downloaded and saved to your system as a .txt file.
  7. You can also choose to copy the header content by making use of the Copy to clipboard option.
  8. Initially only the major header details such as Return Path, authentication Details etc. will be displayed. To view the entire HTML source of the formatted email,  click the Show Full Content option.



Generally, if you are having issues in email sending or receiving, you will need to send the headers of the email. In case you have trouble with the way the email is displayed, then you need to send the entire source of the email. The step by step instructions to get the email headers from various email clients are available in this third party help link.

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