Outlook 2003: how to forward messages and not lose the sender/recipient email addresses

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This is a follow-up for my other question about Outlook 2003.

How do I get Outlook 2003 to forward messages and include the email addresses instead of hiding them?

Let's say I have the following email message in Outlook (the <> represents a hidden email address that Outlook knows but doesn't display):

From: Freddy Oo <foo@example.com>
Sent: Thu 12/3/2009 7:08 PM
To: Jason S <js@example.com>; Barbara Ar <bar@example.com>
Cc: Basil Az <baz@example.com>; Quinn Ux <quux@example.com>
Subject: Something

I have something to say but I forgot what it was. Sorry.

When I go to forward this message, it looks like this: (Outlook has all the information, but the program is just boneheaded.)

From: Jason S <js@example.com>
To:
Subject: FW: Something
----------

From: Freddy Oo
Sent: Thu 12/3/2009 7:08 PM
To: Jason S; Barbara Ar
Cc: Basil Az; Quinn Ux
Subject: Something

I have something to say but I forgot what it was. Sorry.

It just shows the display name and I lose the email addresses, which really sucks. How can I fix this?

clarification: I need to forward an email message to someone. (it may even be to myself to another account) Often it has several recipients. When I forward from Outlook, I lose the actual email address, it just keeps the display name (see above). Therefore the recipients of my forwarded email address do not have access to those email addresses. I could fix it up manually, but that is extremely time-consuming and a continued annoyance.

What I want is to forward my message and have it look like this:

From: Jason S <js@example.com>
To:
Subject: FW: Something
----------

From: Freddy Oo <foo@example.com>
Sent: Thu 12/3/2009 7:08 PM
To: Jason S <js@example.com>; Barbara Ar <bar@example.com>
Cc: Basil Az <baz@example.com>; Quinn Ux <quux@example.com>
Subject: Something

I have something to say but I forgot what it was. Sorry.

Best Answer

This is also not the smoothest answer, but you can open up the email, and click on the Options... button (or if it's not added to your toolbar, it's menu item View->Options...). You then can see the full internet headers, including all the full email addresses. Copy and paste whatever portion of that text you want into your reply.

Outlook Message Options dialog screenshot

Not elegant, but works.

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