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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:08:26 -0800

Robert: OETool from www.oehelp.com will allow you read the complete headers
in a message even thought it's not displayed in the Preview Pane.

-- 
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
In memoriam, Alex Nichol, MVP (1935-2005)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/meetexperts/nichol.mspx
"Robert Aldwinckle" <robald@techemail.com> wrote in message 
news:%23APFZpnJFHA.2628@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> "Rena" <Rena@mail.com> wrote in message
> news:eXEeHvYJFHA.2640@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> Hi all,
>>    I am 2 questions.
>>
>>   1.  How to config my outlook express in order to "show all the header
>> details" as my default when I open up a post?
>
> Are you looking for a way to check spam without opening it?
>
> You can't use  Ctrl-F3  unless the message is already open
> in either the Preview pane or in a message's own window.
> You could use  Alt-Enter,Ctrl-Tab  instead to see just the headers
> from just the message list (keeping the Preview pane closed if desired.)
>
> Alternatively, here is how I do it.
> First select the messages in the message list you want to inspect.
> Then use the Forward as Attachment command  (e.g. press Menu-w)
> That opens a new mail window with all your selected messages listed
> in the attachment box.   By my defaults this is a smallish window which
> always opens on the right.   Now open a blank Notepad window and
> maximize it.   Switch back to the message with the attachments.
> Now you can drag each message from the attachment list to the Notepad
> window.   You can delete them from the attachment list as you go
> if desired.   But the best thing is once you are done inspecting them
> when you close the attachment list the message list will still be there
> waiting with all the same messages selected, read for a quick 
> Shift-Delete.
> If there actually is something you want to keep mixed in with the dross
> you just inspected you have two choices:  either leave the ones you
> want to keep in the attachment list and save it to Drafts or use 
> Ctrl-click
> (or Ctrl-Spacebar) to deselect the ones you want to keep before deleting
> the rest.   Etc.
>
>
>>
>>   2.  also are there any ways to include "Message-ID:","X-Priority", etc
>> as default when I open up a post also??
>> because It is inconvenient to click and get the information one by one. 
>> if
>> not, are there any short cuts?
>
> The quickest way to get  Message-ID using OE's defaults is to press Ctrl-g
> and extract it from the  news:  link which is always generated for a reply 
> to
> a news message.   There is no similar feature for mail messages.
> Also note that in some cases the Message-ID generated that way
> may have certain characters "escaped" into their hex equivalents;
> so depending on your needs you might have to unescape them
> back into their real ASCII characters.
>
> There is a popular add-on called  OEQuoteFix (which I don't use)
> which you might be able to customize to generate additional information
> in a reply header in a similar way.
>
>
>>
>> thanks alot.
>> Rena.
>
>
> HTH
>
> Robert Aldwinckle
> --- 
>
>
> 

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