Outlook will normally use the HTML version of the message and discard the plain text version. See below where there’s a ‘text/plain’ part of the message then a ‘text/html’ version. The message text can be sent as plain text, HTML format or sometimes both. Outlook can show the header – no problem there.
Attachments which are ‘encoded’ for inclusion in emails. In HTML or plain text – either or both can be included. Message text perhaps in different formats. 
Message Body, which is made up of various parts like. Results of any spam or virus checks are added to the header. The technical info about the message, sender, recipient and the route it’s taken to reach the sender. Anatomy of an email messageĪn email message is made up of various parts (this is a simplification which will do for our purposes.): This will open a window or tab with the entire ‘raw’ message: header and all message body parts including text, HTML and attachments. Open the message and look under the menu for various options, one of them is ‘View message source’. If you want to see a complete message, perhaps for debugging or testing, resend it (or CC) to another mail host like Gmail or which has a View Message Source option not available in Outlook. The ‘webmail’ interface might have a ‘view message source’ option. If Outlook is getting mail from a POP3 or IMAP mail host, you might be able to view the source by going to the mail store via a web browser. If that doesn’t apply to you, there are alternatives beyond Outlook. This only works for newly arrived messages. Now under Message | File | Properties | Internet headers you’ll see the whole incoming message. : Outlook 2016 = 16.0 Outlook 2013 = 15.0 Outlook 2010 = 14.0ĭWORD – SaveAllMIMENotJustHeaders value = 1 There’s really no way in Outlook or Exchange Server to view the complete message as it arrived (meaning the header and body entire).įor POP3 accounts only, you can add a Registry entry like this: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\\Outlook\Options\Mail There is one option available in Outlook for Windows, otherwise you have to look elsewhere. 
Outlook can display various parts of a message but not the whole thing, just as it arrived from the sender via mail servers.
That’s not the answer you’ll see elsewhere on the Internet but it’s the sad truth. The short answer is, you can’t, with a possible exception. How can I do that in Outlook?” – Gary G, Taupo NZ. “ I need to see the entire message that was sent to me, headers, MIME parts, the lot.
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