Using Outlook preview in only plain text

[ljCharlie]

I'm using Outlook 2002 and I often turn on the email preview feature. My question is, is there a way to preview the emails in only plain text or rich text mode? If it is not, is there a way to allow the preview to work if the email is a plain text or rich text only? I'm concern about the security of my system as well as the whole network. However, I still like to use the preview feature.

Any suggestion is appreicated!

ljCharlie

[kram 2.0]

What I would do, is turn off the preview pane altogether. To do that, go to View>Preview Pane . That will turn off the preview pane, therefore allowing the emails to be scanned (if you have an EMail AV) before you actually open it.

Hope that helps,
kram

[ghost2003]

pegasus mail will show all in plain text unless you tell it otherwise.

[ljCharlie]

Thank you for the response. So as far as Outlook, there is no other options then?

So you're saying if I have Symantec AntiVirus program running and I don't have the preview turn on, when I double click the email to be opened, the antivirus actually scane email before I open it, is this correct? The antivirus program will even scan a HTML code in the email for virus too or not?

ljCharlie

[kram 2.0]

I don't know about Norton AV - I might question its effectiveness. I generally use NOD32 for my Internet Security - that checks the mail as it is received.

kram

[ljCharlie]

Thanks!

ljCharlie

[glc]

Norton scans mail as it's received too.

[ljCharlie]

So I should be fine by using the preview, right?

ljCharlie

[glc]

Sure, as long as someone doesn't send you a virus that you don't have definitions for yet.

[ljCharlie]

You mean send me a virus by using html codes? Or is it via attachment?

ljCharlie

[aym]

They may use one of the numerous IE/Outlook exploits and send a virus that doesn't require an attachment to be opened in order to infect the system.

If you want to be much safer, use something other than Outlook [Express], like Thunderbird (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/), or Pegasus Mail (http://www.pmail.com/).