Need email "View Source" back
"View Source" was an important tool for looking at the source (headers, body, servers, etc.) of a received message. It was in the context menu (right-click) but is no longer there. I could not find it in the menus either.
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Anonymous
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Our organization send us "phishing challenges", that if we click on we have to attend retraining and be ridiculed for being naive. Reading the Header info was my best tool. So everyone here will have to return to the old Outlook until fixed.
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PG
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This feature is absolutely crucial! Please add it back.
Without it, it's nearly impossible to tell a proper email from a phishing attempt in some cases.
I'd say it's a serious security flaw in the new Outlook.
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Anonymous
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Please add this back!
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Matt Ralston
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Add the "View Source" feature, or at very least view headers. As an e-mail administrator and 2nd line support, I won't be able to continue using Outlook for Mac without it and will need to switch to a different MUA.
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Will Roberts
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I'm just repeating what others have said, try out the Message Header Analyzer add in, I'll actually use it more than the view source option and could actually recommend it to slightly technical users.
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Anonymous
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Please give us back view source! Checking the headers is a good tool in the fight against spam.
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Mike Potter
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I found a work around that seems reasonable to me if it doesn't get added. Drag the email to your desktop and open it in textExit. I get the same results as View Source.
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Stephanie
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This is a huge oversight with the "New Outlook" for security purposes. I'm shocked that Microsoft would allow this feature to be removed.
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Anonymous
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I use this feature in the "old" Outlook daily...
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Ian
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Please bring this back Microsoft. Adding a third party plugin that specifically has permission "This add-in can read or modify the contents of any item in your mailbox, and create new items. It can access personal information -- such as the body, subject, sender, recipients, or attachments -- in any message or calendar item. It may send this data to a third-party service." is really not an option.
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Tom Erdely
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There appears to be no way to view message headers in the new Outlook for Mac. I either have to switch back to the old Outlook or keep going to webmail to get the headers and analyze them.
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Anonymous
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Completely agree with previous comment: "This is not an optional feature. It is necessary when determining the provenance of an email, for fighting phishing attacks, etc."
You guys should really make it better than before - and allow view source for of emails as attachments. End users forward suspicious email to our security desk as an attachment and it would be nice to view source of those as well.
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Anonymous
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Agree it should be included - but as someone else mentioned, download Message Header Analyzer add in - works great!
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Graeme Fowler
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As others have commented, this is one of the single most important features of use to email admins. It's a basic and fundamental feature and should be one of the first available tools in the client, rather than being one of the last.
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Andre
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This is one of the most basic features of any email client. Needed for troubleshooting email routing or performance issues and for verifying source for fighting phishing.
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Michael
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There is an Addin "Message Header Analyzer" you can use to view the headers.
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Anonymous
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This is not an optional feature. It is necessary when determining the provenance of an email, for fighting phishing attacks, etc.
