Cyberbullying, Flaming and Cyberstalking [CFC]
for Parents, Educators and Law Enforcement
E-mail Headers
How to copy the e-mail headers for reporting an abusive e-mail
Most e-mails can be traced back to the sender’s address. To do this, you need the “headers.” These are the codes that are included on the top of most e-mails and with some of the e-mail programs, hidden from view. It’s easy to find them, though.
For Microsoft Outlook, select <Options> from the <View> menu.
For Outlook Express, select <File>, <Properties>, then the <Details> tab
You will see the header coding. Just copy and paste it
into your text document report. Make sure that you turn off your spelling
checker, that will try and change the terms in the code, thinking they
are typos. 
We have found a very good site that has complete instructions for finding the headers in other popular (and not so popular) e-mail applications.
The following link will provide instructions for
MOST of the various email clients in use today: http://vww.spamcop.com/help_with_headers/