How To View The Complete Email Message Source In Outlook

Configure Complete Message Source Availability in Outlook

Outlook takes messages it receives from the internet and stores the headers and individual message parts independently from the message body. When you select a message, Outlook collects the pieces to show just what is needed. Except when you want Outlook to display the headers. By default, Outlook removes certain header lines. Here’s how to configure Outlook to preserve the complete source of email messages.

See the Complete Source of a Message

Editing the SaveAllMIMENotJustHeaders value does not restore the complete message source for emails that were already in Outlook. To retrieve the source of newly retrieved POP messages Outlook 2019 and 2016: Outlook 2013: Outlook 2010: Outlook 2007: Outlook 2003:

Choose DWORD (32-bit) Value if you have a 32-bit version of Office.Choose QWORD (64-bit) Value if you have a 64-bit version of Office.