Since you already have a direct answer to your question, now I'd like
to ask WHY you need (or want?) to do this? It kind of sounds like
you're stuck with some ancient way of handling email that can quite
likely be done better these days.

I mean, we too use email for business, but I can't recall the last
time I needed to copy headers from a client. What's the purpose?


On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Matthew S. Taylor
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Pegasus email would do what you want.
>
> You can also change the message display options in Thunderbird to show the
> headers such that they would be copied.
>
> Matthew
> On Dec 4, 2008, at 4:15 PM, Michael S. Altus wrote:
>
>> I am looking for an e-mail client that that a feature like AOL version 7.
>>
>> As a freelance medical writer-editor, I have individual Word folders for
>> each
>> client. One of the files in these folders is named "Correspondence", in
>> which
>> I routinely keep copies of incoming and outgoing e-mails.
>>
>> I have used AOL version 7 for several years because I can copy the visible
>> headers (subject; date; from; to) in incoming and outgoing e-mails. That
>> is,
>> when I have an incoming or outgoing e-mail on the screen, I can select
>> (Ctrl+A)
>> and copy (Ctrl+C) the e-mail, including the visible headers, and paste
>> (Ctrl+V)
>> it into a Word file that, as mentioned, is named "Correspondence".
>>
>> If you are unclear about what I mean, look at the e-mails in the <
>> www.cguys.org>
>> archives. These e-mails are formatted in a way that that the visible
>> headers
>> can be copied along with the text.
>>
>> When AOL version 9 was introduced, I tried it and found that the e-mails
>> were
>> configured differently. The visible headers are in the "background", so to
>> speak. When I would select an entire page (Ctrl-A), I would get only the
>> body of
>> the e-mail, not including the visible headers. For this reason, I
>> downgraded
>> to AOL version 7.
>>
>> I find that two e-mail clients, Microsoft Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird,
>> are configured in the same way as AOL version 9. When I select on the body
>> of an
>> e-mail, I get only the body, not the visible headers.
>>
>> My webhost offers webmail access to the e-mails. I do not care for the
>> format, and I prefer to have an e-mail client on my computer so as to
>> assure that
>> e-mails are downloaded to my computer from the web.
>>
>> Does anyone know of an e-mail client that formats e-mails to enable
>> copying
>> visible headers along with the text?


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