"Message Options" to view all headers.
The old Outlook app has a function of "Message Options" that allows you to view all the message headers, without opening the message, to determine if the Email is spam or contains malicious 'packages'. Spammers fake the basic FROM information, but within the headers you can see where the message actually originated from and which servers it passed through. It is a safety feature to prevent automatic 'confirmation of receipt' and other cyberstalking responses upon opening of the Email by deleting it before opening. How can I do the same thing using Thunderbird.
Example: Return-Path: <01010198ce4******-cca7-4763-bd7c-736abf31a416-000000@mail.firefox.com> (***this can be falsified***) Delivered-To: '''(***redacted***)''' Received: (qmail 404816 invoked from network); 21 Aug 2025 20:14:47 -0000 Received: from a59-50.smtp-out.us-west-2.amazonses.com (HELO a59-50.smtp-out.us-west-2.amazonses.com) (54.240.59.50) (***This can be falsified***) by (***redacted***) with (TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS (7b9ce110-7e*********341ca7f98); Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:14:47 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/simple; s=6ujb3doj4mwbng********3; d=firefox.com; t=1755***286; h=From:Sender:To:Subject:Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Content-Type; bh=T5q+t93Z3ALFYCbyT*********+OJW/vRrGhTg=; b=bTLofV7VLWXo/EmaTMwly2r35torEW7HAKOXuASjJwxiq73VLbKz2vMHZOGXEluu RMG5I1DUwpy4dn**********Tg1gS7ZSS+GuyCwMAASjyweSMvKZhlANnNfbW C9PUvylBVj272EhtTk9s4MBFIIjOPZmrwe+zmo2Q= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/simple; s=gdwg2y3ko******ilkup5wp5hhxx; d=amazonses.com; t=1755807286; h=From:Sender:To:Subject:Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Feedback-ID; bh=T5q+t93Z3ALFYC**********5YdKr+OJW/vRrGhTg=; b=Y0JnPpx1TwX2E51oYf+drgGkglkHNxdZH+/xQcqk5Mku7Wi2YglHZSSyf9kMRJOJ 3nDB5a/DwVo/YLY0l**********ZjFs893PwdsktXopqXEOLSyNGLMRCdh iUcOti/cHJHUSdN5lmrcyAv9zcnMevO9FX5/KpxQ= Content-Language: en-US X-Template-Name: verifyShortCode X-Template-Version: 5 X-Verify-Short-Code: 830807 X-Device-ID: 9e821fb2191******2ad21a34147f59 X-Flow-ID: e437667dd6a6****************f5cc6e044af637002 X-Flow-Begin-Time: 1755807026335 X-Uid: fd5df64e898*********714d932108c From: Mozilla <accounts@firefox.com> (***This cannot be falsified***) Sender: Mozilla <accounts@firefox.com> (***This cannot be falsified***) To: (***redacted***) Subject: Confirm your account Message-ID: <01010198ce4**********763-bd7c-736abf31a416-000000@us-west-2.amazonses.com> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:14:45 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="--_NmP-9e6cf*****86020-Part_1"
Feedback-ID: fxa-verify::1.us-west-2.9obwqSuHxA*********AmnSHOVLO3+B/64gdyXQ=:AmazonSES X-SES-Outgoing: 2025.08.21-54.240.59.50 X-MagicMail-OS: Linux 2.2.x-3.x X-MagicMail-UUID: 7b9ce110*********a73341ca7f98 X-MagicMail-SourceIP: 54.240.59.50 X-MagicMail-RegexMatch: 0 X-MagicMail-EnvelopeFrom: <01010198ce4502a********-cca7-4763-bd7c-736abf31a416-000000@mail.firefox.com> (***this cannot be falsified***) X-MagicMail-Original-Destination: (***redacted***) X-MagicMail-Quarantine: Yes X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 250****10, 8/21/2025), Inbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean
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Rick: I do not find that "View Menu" The only explosion I get on "View" is Toolbars, Layout, and Folders.
I have found that I can right click the listing, Save As... then use Open With on the file and select NOTEPAD to get a similar result to MESSAGE OPTIONS. I wish I could change the RIGHT CLICK options to include Open with Notepad.
Thanks, Rick. I appreciate it! Found it.
However, to use that you have to OPEN the message first, which triggers any payload or auto-acknowledge/auto-receipt the message is carrying. I was looking for the ability to view the headers without "OPEN"ing (the process of Opening) the message. It seems that I will have to use the SAVE AS to a file then use the Windows OPEN WITH Notepad. Nothing 'executes' that way.
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