Dave, I’ve really been enjoying learning more about Google’s Gmail system, and have found your Q&A articles invaluable assistance (especially the one about forwarding messages and the one about Gmail phishing notifications) but I’m still a bit puzzled about one thing: how do I see the headers to messages I receive?

While Gmail ostensibly suffers from the same problem of any well-designed interface — that it hides too much information from advanced users in the interest of offering the best possible experience to novices — the good news is that it’s very easy to dig into a given email message and learn more about its headers. Even better, you can easily add the message sender to your contacts list, forward or print the message, and much more, all with one click.

The secret is the tiny little “More options” link that appears adjacent to the time and date that the message was sent on the header line.

Let me show you what I mean…

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