Re: Can't copy "Message Source" area ?

The button I added to OETool (www.oehelp.com/OETool/) does not require the message to be opened.

steve

"Robert Aldwinckle" <robald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%238XXc0HsFHA.3788@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
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Ctrl-F3  should be the equivalent of   Alt-Enter,Ctrl-Tab,Alt-M
which it appears you claim that you can still do.


The Atl-Enter worked, the Crtl-Tab worked but the Alt-M did
not work.  It didn't bring up the message source.


Ah.  Sorry, I misinterpreted what you wrote earlier.
You were saying that you knew that that is what you should be able to do
to capture headers but were unable to for some reason.

So, there is definitely something wrong with your OE or your system,
not your keyboard.   BTW the above method does not require that
the message be open in either the Preview pane or in a separate message
window, discounting Steve's caveat for Ctrl-F3 use.


 Question:
Does one really need to copy/past the "message source" info
into the spam for the ISP to block them?


Yes.   The people designing the filters want to see the full headers
on your message to see the maximum number of clues about its origin.

BTW  have you misunderstood  Sean Wu's  second tip about using
Forward as Attachment?   If your  ISP  would accept that it would be
the simplest method of notifying them of your spam, even easier than
using either of the methods of copying just a message's headers.
E.g.  while the message is selected in the list press Menu,w,   address
the E-mail and send it.

A possible problem with that could be the fact that that copies the entire
message including the spam content so depending on your encoding
method if you sent it as is it might be blocked as spam itself. E.g. if you
were going to send it attached to an E-mail and your encoding method
for E-mail is Quoted Printable the attachment would be readable by
scanning your message's source too. That's why just the headers may be
preferred by your ISP. Size of message may be another reason.
BTW instead of saving the file as Sean suggested you could drag the
attachment to a Notepad window for viewing and extracting just the headers
from it in a similar manner. That at least would avoid the need to create
temporary files to work from.

I would ask though. If the message is small and they don't filter wherever
it is that you have to send your spam reports they may be satisfied just
getting it directly from a Forward as Attachment command. That would be
much easier for you.



And I think you and Steve are right, maybe there is something
wrong with the F3 key.  It's an old laptop.


No.  You have proved that your symptom is independent of the use of
either a  Ctrl-  key  or   F3  or both together.


FWIW I just tried monitoring the Alt-M action with RegMon and FileMon
to try to find out which .dll would be involved but nothing was recorded.
I guess it is all optimized so if there is any chance for those diagnostics
to help it would have to be when msimn.exe is started, if then.
A better tool would be one which traces windows messages but I don't
have one installed on this partition. Perhaps Steve or one of the others
could help more on that tack.


HTH

Robert
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