How to analyze full headers of a selected email in Outlook?

Author Siluvia Last modified 2025-04-10

If you want to view and analyze the internet headers of a selected email in Outlook, the below methods will help you.

View full headers of a selected email in Outlook
View and analyze full headers of an email in Outlook

View full headers of a selected email in Outlook

You can go to the properties window to view the full internet headers of an email in Outlook.

1. Double-click to open an email you want to view its headers. Then click "Message" > "Message options" in the "Tags" group. See screenshot:

steps on viewing full headers of a selected email in Outlook

2. Then the "Properties" window opens, and you can see the information of the headers listed in the Internet headers box as shown in the screenshot below:

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View and analyze full headers of an email in Outlook

The "Message Header Analyzer" utility of "Kutools for Outlook" helps you to easily view and analyze the full internet headers of an email. Please do as follows.

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1. Select an email you want to view its headers, then click "Kutools Plus" > "Message Header Analyzer". See screenshot:

steps on viewing and analyzing full headers of an email in Outlook

2. Then a "Message Header Analyzer" dialog box pops up which contains four header tabs - "Summary", "Sender Headers", "Other headers", and "Source data". You can view headers under the corresponding tabs as you need.