I asked: Does anyone know of an e-mail client that formats e-mails to enable copying visible headers along with the text?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: I use Mozilla thunderbird. If I want to copy the heading information, I select forward the email inline and then I can copy it (except for bcc recipients). I comment: Thank you for the comment. I downloaded and installed Thunderbird ver 2. Simply pressing the Forward button opens a Compose screen. Once I realized that the path is Message>Forward As>Inline, I got a screen that enabled me to copy the headers and the message. However, when I include an attachment, the headers do not record the attached file(s). In contrast, AOL ver 7 headers do include this information. I'll ask Thunderbird Help (www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird) for advice. Tony B wrote: 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? I comment: Perhaps I did not sufficiently explain in my first post. Most of my work is in Word. I find it convenient to open a folder in Word and have everything related to the folder in that folder. For example, I have folders for business clients. I find it convenient to have a file named "Correspondence" that has all of my e-mail records in that file. When I save the e-mails in this way, I can scroll through the correspondence file and review my correspondence, and I can delete the e-mails from the e-mail client. I do not retain business client e-mails in subfolders of the e-mail client. Accordingly, I want the e-mails to include the headers with key information (Subject; Date; From; To; and Attachments). I do not want to have to open another program, such as an e-mail client, to obtain the e-mail records. I do not want to store e-mails in folders in the incoming box in the e-mail client. Apparently, this work style of keeping e-mails is unfamiliar to some. It took me time to explain with when I spoke about it with others. Sue Cubic wrote: You need to find [Eudora] Ver 7xx, though--not Ver 8--which is really Thunderbird.... I use Eudora, which has a "blah-blah" button to expose all the headers in any email. I comment: Thank you for this suggestion. I tried and might continue to check Eudora ver 7. I find that the button line has only icons and not words, and otherwise is crowded. Perhaps I can change the buttons to include words, and reduce the congestion. The buttons on Thunderbird ver 2 have both icons and words as default. Although the Blah Blah Blah button does expose the headers, that's only for incoming mail, as far as I can tell. I want to be able to capture headers for outgoing mail. Sue, do you know how to capture headers on outdoing mail? Have I overlooked something? Matthew Taylor replied: Pegasus email would do what you want. I comment: Thanks for the suggestion. I'll have a look. Tom Piwowar wrote: Gmail using "show details." I comment: Thanks for the suggestion. I'll have a look. But I understand that Gmail is webmail. I'm interested in having an e-mail client that downloads e-mail to my computer. Betty (b_s-wilk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) replied: When I want to copy the header, I simply choose "Edit as New" in Thunderbird's Message menu. Then I make whatever changes I want, or keep it as is. I comment: Betty, I tried this repeatedly in incoming and outgoing messages. In my hands, this step appears to be writing a new e-mail. I get the headers separated from the message. Have I overlooked something? Fred Holmes wrote: In Eudora, the entire incoming message is displayed in a single pane, and CTRL-A selects all, including the displayed message headers. If you can read the manual and write simple code in the settings file, you can select exactly which headers will be displayed and which will not. I haven't found (but can't say it doesn't exist) a GUI dialog for setting the displayed headers. I comment: Worth a try. Thanks again, Fred. Thanks again, y'all. For the while, I'm starting off with Thunderbird. Michael Michael S. Altus, PhD, ELS Intensive Care Communications, Inc.(R) Biomedical Writing and Editing Baltimore MD; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
