But what do you do about an email that may or may not be spam? It might have a familiar name and an innocuous subject or may even be from a potential customer and you certainly don't want to trash it out of hand.
If you use Microsoft Entourage, here's a tip. First, turn off the Preview Pane. Automatically opening email as you click on it is a bad idea anyway (it alerts the spammers, as I said above, and while there aren't any email viruses for the Mac that activate on opening yet, why take the chance?)
Second, when you want to check a suspicious email, just select the email and click on the Print icon in the toolbar. Up pops a print preview window that shows a representation of the email in a window. The preview window doesn't download anything from external servers so you see just the text. If it's all HTML gobbledygook or if its a blatant advertisement, you can click Cancel and trash the email, secure in the knowledge that the spammer doesn't know you're on to him.

