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Why is orignal message header is lost in Outlook replies?

Rosanne Lo 31 Reputation points
2021-07-26T00:45:49.763+00:00

Recently, original message header is lost when replying or forwarding emails in some Outlook mails.
It is strange that some emails retain the headers with time stamp etc. Some are gone.
Seeking help for this very important function...How to fix this?

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Outlook: A family of Microsoft email and calendar products.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
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  1. Steve 1 Reputation point
    2021-08-23T16:53:06.29+00:00

    Same problem as well!!. mostly notice on IMAP accounts and replying to Gmail senders.

    Only since updating to latest version of Outlook on Mac.
    Outlook: 16.52 (21080801), using 'classic' version (IMAP!)
    OS: Catalina 10.15.7

  2. Jacky Hill 1 Reputation point
    2021-09-01T11:22:45.217+00:00

    See above by nzbloke...
    "The problem is the incompatibility of the two options under Composing:

    • Custom attribution format
    • Compose messages in HTML by default."

    I just did this under both the HTML and Plain Text tab in Outlook and the headers appeared on email relies that I "know" didn't have them before. It wasn't gmail related for me -- unless the businesses whose email replies failed to include the header were actually gmail addresses. I had gmail addresses that worked just fine.

    The failure to include was consistent with particular senders -- it never included them -- not just sometimes.

    Will report again if this changes.

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  3. Chris Sutherland 1 Reputation point
    2021-09-15T02:51:27.53+00:00

    Problem finally appears to have been resolved in version 16.53 released today. Hurrah!

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