emails always opened

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Paul Bottone

Dear Sirs,
I am using MS Outlook express to receive and send my
emails. With all the risks nowadays of receiving a virus,
I was tolds not to open incoming emails and especially
the attachments. But using Outlook Express I have no
choice, as soon as I go to Outlook, it goes immediately
to the Inbox and the first email highlighted is already
opened. Is this a bad feature of the program? If it is I
will no longer use Outlook Express. I also have AOL and I
do not have that problem there. If there is a way to
correct this please let me know.
Thank you
Paul Bottone
 
Ask in an Outlook Express forum. This is an Microsoft Office Outlook forum.

Outlook Express is family of Internet Explorer and Outlook of the Office
family.

Here is the link for the right forum
http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=InternetExplorer

Good Luck!

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As Roady implied, you should be posting your inquiries to the right
newsgroup, but...

Change your "Layout" (View menu) so that you are NOT showing the Preview
Pane.

Unfortunately, I am unable to find a setting, as exists in Outlook (not
OE) that controls what happens when you DELETE a message that you are
viewing. Ideally, you would NOT have it automatically display the next
message. Otherwise, if the message you are reading is fine, but the
next one isn't... BOOM you've activated the infection. So, as far as I
can see, you have to do this..

Select message to read. Open message. Read message. Close message
window. Delete (if you wish) message. Select next message, Open it,
read it, etc. If you fail to CLOSE the message window and instead hit
Delete, you've circumvented the value of turning off the Preview Pane as
a way to reduce your risk of viruses and worms and such

Bear
 
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