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How can I stop forwarded emails displaying all that header rubbish, please ?

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user01229325 replied
Pertinax
Pertinax

When I forward an email, there's a huge header that I can't remove. It annoys most of my recipients, many don't see what I've written and don't reply, some think I've got a virus and delete the email.

I'm talking about all the lines as below:

X-Account-Key: X-UIDL: X-Mozilla-Status: X-Mozilla-Status2: X-Mozilla-Keys: Delivered-To: Received: X-Received: Return-Path: Received: Received-SPF: Authentication-Results: DKIM-Signature: X-Thread-Info: Received: Received: Content-Type: MIME-Version: Message-ID:


I'd also like Thunderbird to stop displaying these fields on emails I receive.

When I forward an email, there's a huge header that I can't remove. It annoys most of my recipients, many don't see what I've written and don't reply, some think I've got a virus and delete the email. I'm talking about all the lines as below: X-Account-Key: X-UIDL: X-Mozilla-Status: X-Mozilla-Status2: X-Mozilla-Keys: Delivered-To: Received: X-Received: Return-Path: Received: Received-SPF: Authentication-Results: DKIM-Signature: X-Thread-Info: Received: Received: Content-Type: MIME-Version: Message-ID: I'd also like Thunderbird to stop displaying these fields on emails I receive.

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user01229325
user01229325

Chosen Solution

From the menu bar select View-Headers-Normal

No menu bar? Press the alt key.

Pertinax
Pertinax Question owner

Wonderful.

Thanks very much.

kicker_girl
kicker_girl

I still have the problem of all the header rubbish appearing on emails that I forward to people, even though only the 'normal headers' box is checked. Can anyone help? Thanks

user01229325
user01229325

Headers set to normal should fix this for all sends and printing. Try toggling the setting to All and then back to normal.