Most of us have, at some point, received a questionable email in our in-boxes. Some emails embed code which makes them potentially harmful to view, or they can utilize a variety of various spam tricks (upcoming article on PCMech will discuss spam in-depth). You can safely view an email without triggering any badness therein using Outlook Express. Simply right-click the message and select Properties, and click on Details. There you can read the message’s header information which will give you the sender’s information. If the header information is suspicious, you can then kill the email. If you can’t read the headers, you can click Message Source and read the email in HTML source code, which will not trigger any script which may be embedded into the code.
In Outlook, you cannot view the Message Source without first putting the email into the preview pane, which kind of defeats the point. However, you can still view the headers by right-clicking on the subject and choosing Options.
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