No longer have the option to right click on a email and view the sorce
It seems that MS has removed the ability to right click on a email and check the sorce of it. I used this option when I would ckeck my junk email. It was a great way to check if the email was lagit or junk before opening it.Can some one tell me why they remove this great tool??? 1 person needs an answerI do too
August 8th, 2010 8:59am

Do you mean: Outlook Express > Right-click the message line > Properties > Details > Message Source?If so, it hasn't been removed as it still works for me.
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August 8th, 2010 10:11am

CTRL-F3 is faster. steve "BurrWalnut" wrote in message news:efdc447d-b28b-48ea-b19b-05d649ae0a31...Do you mean: Outlook Express > Right-click the message line > Properties > Details > Message Source?If so, it hasn't been removed as it still works for me.
August 8th, 2010 3:05pm

CTRL-F3 is faster. Ctrl+F3 only works if the email has been opened. The OP (gearhead143) wrote “It was a great way to check if the email was lagit (sic) or junk before opening it.”.
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August 8th, 2010 3:19pm

I used this option with Hotmail, and Gmail, and you could check the sorce befor you opened the email as I stated in my post. I was talking with a friend today and he noticed the change after a recent MS update.
August 9th, 2010 4:47am

'Ow do, everyone! :-) I know that this might be a little after the fact for some posters here, but I thought I'd post this for public reference, and to help anyone else who's also struggling with the Hotmail "View Message Source " problem and finds this thread via Google. :-)Because I'm about to back-up and purge my own Hotmail and Windows Live e-mail accounts soon, I ran into this very same problem earlier today; Whenever trying to view mail source in Hotmail, all I got was a new window full of binary gibberish.However - Seeing that different messages gave different lengths of output - I decided to poke about with what Hotmail was sending out, and after a while it became apparent that the output was actuallyGZip-compressed HTML , and perfectly readable with the right tools! :-)So...Here's how to view the e-mail message source in Windows Live Hotmail:(This assumes that you use the FireFox browser. Adjust these instructions as appropriate for other browsers and operating systems.)Use the "View Message Source " option in Hotmail (Right-click the message in the Inbox, or click the down arrow next to "Action " or "Reply " when viewing the message) to open a new window/tab with the message source. If you get a plain text display at this point (Lucky get!) you don't need to proceed any further with these instructions.If - Like most users - You get a window full of binary source (Gibberish), save the output to disk by right clicking and selecting "Save TargetA s... ". Save the file with a .html.gz extension.Once downloaded, run GZip over the file to decompress it (gzip -d message-source.html.gz). A Windows version of GZip is available from SourceForgeHere , and works in exactly the same way from the Command Prompt as the Linux version.After GZip has decompressed the file, it may be opened in any web browser. If viewing mail source is all that's needed, stop following the instructions here...Otherwise, continue to find out how to convert this source into MIME format e-mail.The HTML file that contains the message source has many low order and special characters (Including CR/LF pairs) escaped out using HTML ampersand-hash (&-#) encoding. Open the HTML file using your favourite text editor e.g; Windows Notepad.Remove the PRE tags from the top and bottom of the file, then use your editor's replace function to swap the escaped characters for their normal equivalents. E.G: Replace AH13;AH10; (A = Ampersand, H = Hash) with carriage returns, AH38; with ampersands, AH36; with the Dollar sign, etc. Once finished, you should have a plain-text MIME e-mail that can be saved with your preferred extension and used in your local mail client as normal. :-)Unfortunateley, I don't have any time to craft a program to automate this process for everyone...But if anyone else does, here's some high level pseudocode that might help ye with developing it! :-)DOWNLOAD mail FROM hotmail/GetMessageSource.aspx AS binary octet-stream DECOMPRESS mail WITH gzip -d %1 REMOVE html-tags FROM mail REPLACE/DE-ESCAPE all ampersand-hash encoded chars IN mail SAVE mail AS e-mail OR IMPORT TO mail client Farewell for now, and hope that this helps out the many people who've also been having this problem! >:-)+++ DieselDragon +++ - DieselDragon.co.uk
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September 13th, 2010 12:46am

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