Working with Message Headers

The following sections explain the specific steps to follow as you perform various tasks with message headers through remote mail. You’ll learn how to download the headers, how to selectively mark them, and how to process them.

Downloading Message Headers

When you want to process messages selectively, you first download the message headers and then decide what action you want to perform with each message, based on its header. Downloading message headers for an account is easy. In Outlook 2007, choose Tools, Send/Receive, <Account> Only, Download Inbox Headers, where <Account> is the name of the account whose headers you want to process.

After you choose the Download Inbox Headers command, Outlook 2007 performs a send/receive ...

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