{"id":8602,"date":"2023-01-25T13:00:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=8602"},"modified":"2023-01-26T00:08:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T16:08:33","password":"","slug":"check-email-header-thunderbird","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/help\/check-email-header-thunderbird\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Check Email Header on Thunderbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are tons of reasons why you may want to check email header of a message you have received. Maybe you are exchanging emails with a client or a supplier, or may be dealing with spam and want to verify who&#8217;s sending it. Either way, it&#8217;s easy to check email header but you have to know how to access them in Thunderbird.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>1. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From your Thunderbird app, click on the message you want to check email header information for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>2. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the menu bar, click on <\/span><b>More<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, then click on <\/span><b>View Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8604\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/01\/thunderbird-check-email-header-view-source.png\" alt=\"thunderbird check email header view source\" width=\"711\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/01\/thunderbird-check-email-header-view-source.png 711w, https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/01\/thunderbird-check-email-header-view-source-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 711px) 100vw, 711px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>3. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new window will open to show the full email header information, just like the one below:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8603\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/01\/thunderbird-check-email-header-see-full-details.png\" alt=\"thunderbird check email header see full details\" width=\"793\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/01\/thunderbird-check-email-header-see-full-details.png 793w, https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/01\/thunderbird-check-email-header-see-full-details-300x238.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/01\/thunderbird-check-email-header-see-full-details-768x609.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 793px) 100vw, 793px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are tons of reasons why you may want to check email header of a message you have received. Maybe you are exchanging emails with a client or a supplier, or may be dealing with spam and want to verify who&#8217;s sending it. Either way, it&#8217;s easy to check email header but you have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[32],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-8602","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-email-hosting"],"year_month":"2026-06","word_count":107,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"syd123","author_nicename":"syd123","author_url":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/author\/syd123\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Email Hosting","term_url":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/help-category\/email-hosting\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/8602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/8602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8606,"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/8602\/revisions\/8606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=8602"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cldy.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=8602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}