Vista - Reading Pane Safety

The Layout menu has an option to use the reading pane to see information
about a sender or message without opening it. How does that work?
Is that a safe way to prevent spammers from getting an acknowledgement that
they have reached a valid e-mail address?

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Chambro

The reading pane is the same as opening the message.
Two things you can do:
read all messages in plain text
go offline before reading email
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Ron Sommer

"Chambro" <Chambro@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Chambro wrote:=================================
Try selecting a message and type...Ctrl+F3.

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J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

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me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

Thank you Ron and John for your reply. Is the statement about the Reading
Pane on the Layout Menu not true? It says "you can use the reading pane to
see information about a message or the sender without opening it."

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Chambro


"Ron Sommer" wrote:

You are not opening it in its own window.
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Ron Sommer

"Chambro" <Chambro@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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If it is not being opened then the reading pane is NOT the same as opening
the message and the reading pane should be a secure means of inspecting a
message before opening it. I do not understand how this is possible.
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Chambro


"Ron Sommer" wrote:

For safety reasons, you cannot preview a message in the Junk e-mail folder.

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Cheers,
Peter.R
(Windows Vista Home Premium with Windows Live Mail 2009 14.0.8064.0206)
"There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Shakespeare

"Chambro" <Chambro@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:10E28D2F-341A-4F52-A0D9-6B35B9D3AB0B@xxxxxx

A message in the reading pane is being opened, just not in its own window.
It's a matter of semantics, i.e., how you define 'opening'.
The security implications are the same either way.

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Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


"Chambro" <Chambro@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:10E28D2F-341A-4F52-A0D9-6B35B9D3AB0B@xxxxxx

Thank you for your reply.
I was not trying to preview the message in the Junk e-mail folder, but the
fact that you can't, as you pointed out, tells me that the reading pane does
in fact open the message and therefore is not a secure way to preview the
message or its sender. As far as I know, clicking on properties of a message
allows you to see it in plain text form and therefore should be safe, but
again, I am not sure of this.
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Chambro


"Peter.R" wrote:

Thank you for your reply. I agree with you. There is no security in opening a
message in the reading pane. The message presented in the pop-up is
mis-leading and gives a false sense of security. As far as I know, the only
way to safely preview a message is to look at its properties which is
presented in plain text. Thanks again.
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Chambro


"Gary VanderMolen" wrote: