How do I forward an original e-mail, with everything, without composing a new e-mail in iPhone’s iOS v17.7.1’s preinstalled Mail app? I need to forward spam e-mails with everything including their headers.
Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)
I don’t believe that forwarding will work here. If you were on a Mac, you could save the message as ‘Raw Message Source’ and then send the file created as an attachment to an email to the spam hunter.
There is no way to view all the headers in IOS Mail. However, if the message was sent to an iCloud address, you can open it in iCloud.com. Under the circled dots (More options) icon at the top, you can tap “Show All Headers.” You can then copy and paste them into a new message or Note and send that as an attachment to the message you are sending to the spam hunter.
The process is more straightforward from a Mac than I outlined above. You can Forward a message as an attachment, which preserves the entire message with headers. Unfortunately, that option is not available in IOS or iCloud.com.
Thanks and interesting. I wonder why Apple did that in iOS. So annoying!
I assume iOS v18.3.2 still can’t do this in iPhones. I had to use the computer’s an email client and online webmail. Apple really needs to add this as an option (already left a feedback). :(
A forward is by definition a new email with the entire previous one in the body. You’re probably thinking redirect…but I don’t see a way to do that on either iPhone or iPad.
Two Mac Mail features that I have always missed on iOS Mail: redirect (for incoming) and send again (for outgoing). I’d love to learn they’re hidden somewhere deep in iOS Mail and that it’s just that I haven’t found them yet.
On iOs 17.7.2, send again is right there below remind and flag…
Hmm, not seeing that on 18.3.1.
Thank you, that’s interesting. That only exists on the reply sheet you get if you’re opened an individual message. For my sent email, I’m usually not there. For my sent email, I’m usually navigating to it in the Sent folder. A long tap on a message listed there reveals a similar sheet, but missing from it there is, Send Again. Good to know. 
The old style redirect altered mail headers to work, so it was severely damaged by the ineffective but now ubiquitous SPF spam blocking system, with more modern ineffective blocking systems screwing the coffin lid down tight.
I have never heard of redirect term. In Mozilla’s Thunderbird and SeaMonkey, mutt, etc., I can forward e-mails as attachments inside the new e-mail.
My experience exactly. I used the command-shift-e shortcut (Redirect) to forward messages I received that were really for my wife, but that quit working a year or two ago. Mail still offers the Redirect option, but due to the reasons you state, the messages get bounced instead of delivered. I can still Forward the messages, but they looked much cleaner when Redirect was working.
Most email systems I’ve used offer redirect…which essentially sends the unaltered message including the original sender to a different mailbox on a different system so that it looks like the original email was sent to the redirect mailbox. Not really important or an often used feature though.
