Forward emails including headers¶

When analyzing emails, a great deal of relevant information can only be found in the email header. In order to forward this information intact and in its entirety via electronic mail, the relevant emails must be forwarded unchanged as attachments. The following paragraphs describe how to do this for the email clients commonly used at KIT.

Forward emails including headers

Microsoft Outlook 2010–2019¶

Open the email you want to forward. In the Home tab, open the More drop-down menu in the Respond section and select Forward as Attachment.

Microsoft Outlook 2024¶

Microsoft has streamlined the ribbon in newer versions of Outlook and removed the relevant functionality. Users of affected Outlook versions have two options: restore the old ribbon (Ⓐ) or forward emails using drag and drop (Ⓑ).

There is a drop-down menu on the far right of the ribbon. Open it and select Classic Ribbon.

After switching the menu ribbon to the old version, proceed as described for older versions of Outlook.

Drag’n’Drop (Ⓑ)¶

Create a new email. Drag the email you want to forward into the new email.

Outlook on the web (OWA)¶

Create a new email by clicking on ⊕ New ﹀ Email message.

Drag the email you want to forward into the text field of the new email.

Mozilla Thunderbird¶

Open the context menu of the email you want to forward. This usually works by right-clicking on any part of the email.

Select Forward and Redirect → As attachment.

Apple Mail (macOS)¶

Select or open the relevant email and choose Message → Forward as Attachment from the menu bar.

Unfortunately, this feature is not available on mobile devices (iPhone and iPad). Please use one of the other mail clients documented here.

Evolution¶

Select the email you want to forward. Select Message → Forward as ⏵ Attached from the application menu.

or from the menu bar Forward → Forward as Attached

🐕️ (Neo)Mutt¶

Set the variable mime_forward to true, either in your ~/.muttrc or interactively with

:set mime_forward=yes

Then forward the email. In the default configuration, simply press the f key to do this.