Allow outlook to display the raw internet message

[bill-in-denver]

It would be nice for sys admins (and others!) to be able to look at the
complete raw text of internet messages. You alrready do this for the headers
(view-->options). Why not just make the whole message available in that very
window.

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[neo [mvp outlook]]

FWIW, Outlook 2003 has this for Internet (e.g. POP3) protocols.

http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/view_source.htm

 

[Pat Willener]

You could use a plug-in such as OlSpamcop (http://www.olspamcop.org/);
it allows you to copy the full message source to the clipboard.

 

[Brian Tillman]

It would be nice for sys admins (and others!) to be able to look at
the complete raw text of internet messages. You alrready do this for
the headers (view-->options). Why not just make the whole message
available in that very window.

I think this is a good suggestion, but it would entail a significant change
in how Outlook stores messages, since it doesn't store the raw message
anywhere, from what I've read. By the time the message reaches the folder,
it has been changed from the raw form.

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

The raw SMTP form is stored until any MAPI access to the message and then
it's converted into the relevant MAPI properties. That means that any MAPI
type access (like Outlook) only gets what MAPI provides. A direct query into
the server using non-MAPI access (like WebDAV) would be required to get at
the original raw message in the EDB.

 

[Brian Tillman]

The raw SMTP form is stored until any MAPI access to the message and
then it's converted into the relevant MAPI properties. That means
that any MAPI type access (like Outlook) only gets what MAPI
provides. A direct query into the server using non-MAPI access (like
WebDAV) would be required to get at the original raw message in the
EDB.

Thanks for that. Sounds like a useful tool. I wish I knew enough about it
to produce one.

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

I could swear that KC Lemson of the Exchange group had something about that
in one of her blog entries from back when Exchange 2000 was released, a tool
to read the SMTP stuff from the EDB, but I can't find it now. If I get a
chance I'll ping her and see if she has any ideas about that.