Hi,

I want to get more information on reading or opening suspicious e-mails. It does not do any good to just delete an e-mail if I want to find out how they are engineered.

So far I have had no problems, or at least I think so. I have all relevant patches, OE is configured to remove attachments, and the virii scanning software is always enabled.

If I want to look at the message content and headers, I right click the e-mail in question, click properties and then message source. Finally I expand the window to read the content.
Amazing, the crap that's in some of these. I know some HTML, and its interesting to see apparently meaningless words between the delimiters.
Occasionally I have saved an attachment, scanned it, and only then opened it.

Are these safe practices, and are there some tips. I haven't seen a forum specifically on handling techniques of e-mails here.

g8way2u