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How Do I See The Full Mail Header Of An Incoming Message In Pine?

First you have to make sure that this function is turned on.

  1. Type s to go to the Setup menu.
  2. Type c to go to pine's configuration screen.
  3. Press the space bar to page down until you see:
            [X]  enable-full-header-cmd
    If there is not an X between the [ ] then you want to Type x to turn this function on.
  4. Type e to Exit Config. You will see:
            Commit changes ("Yes" replaces settings, "No" abandons changes)?
    Type y to save and exit.

Now type h in the message in which you want to see the full header. Type h again if you want to see the short header again.

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