Email Headers Analyzer for Outlook is a part of our Outlook Add-ins Collection. After installing it, you will see the add-in icon under the AbleBits tab.
To trace email headers, just select the needed message, click on the Email Headers icon in Outlook and view headers information parsed into 5 tabs:
This tab contains such details as sender and recipient email addresses, subject, creation time, client, country and city. You can click on the down arrow next to Date to change the Time Zone to UTC, local, or display the sender's time zone:
Here you can find all information from the Internet headers property as it looks in Outlook. However, unlike in Outlook, Email Headers Analyzer window can be easily resized to display all details at once:
When a message is delivered, it may be routed to several servers before arriving at its final destination. Our add-in allows to get these mail server hops at a glance, analyze them and the times between hops to detect such problems as slow relays:
This tab provides Authentication and AntiSpam details. When getting spam that slips past the filters, it is important to look into the full message headers. It helps validate the identities of the Administrative Management Domains that take part in transferring and possibly modifying a message. The results of such validation can tell recipients what kind of reaction the message should get:
Here you can find a list of all Outlook email headers. Click on them to navigate to the header details in the Email Headers Analyzer window.
You can also use the linked headers to open header fields' descriptions in your browser:
