预览电子邮件是否安全？

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In the early 2000s, many security professionals advised disabling your email client’s preview function. Simply previewing an email could be dangerous! This is no longer good advice. With a modern email client, you can preview all the emails you want.

在2000年代初期，许多安全专家建议禁用电子邮件客户端的预览功能。 仅预览电子邮件可能很危险！ 这不再是一个好建议。 使用现代化的电子邮件客户端，您可以预览所需的所有电子邮件。

除非您有时间机器，否则它是安全的 (Unless You Have a Time Machine, It’s Safe)

We recently posted an article about how to turn on the preview pane in Gmail. Through article comments, emails, and Twitter DMs, we got quite a few people asking us if it was safe to use the preview pane.

我们最近发布了有关如何在Gmail中打开预览窗格的文章。 通过文章评论，电子邮件和Twitter DM，我们吸引了很多人问我们使用预览窗格是否安全。

Back in the day, articles advising disabling your preview pane were commonplace. Many websites made the case that using the preview pane option was a Bad Idea. They often didn’t specify why, other than saying you “may open an email message that you really didn’t want to open.” The implication is that a virus or other nasty thing might get on to your computer if you open an infected email. To be fair, this was a problem for a short while back in the early part of the millennium.

过去，建议禁用预览窗格的文章很普遍。 许多网站都认为使用“预览窗格”选项是个坏主意。 他们通常没有指定原因，除了说“可以打开您确实不想打开的电子邮件”。 这意味着如果打开受感染的电子邮件，病毒或其他令人讨厌的东西可能会感染您的计算机。 公平地讲，这在千年初期是一小段时间的问题。

Once email started using HTML for formatting, some malicious actors took advantage of this to execute code— usually JavaScript—when an email was read. For a short period, it was considered dangerous to open mails, and by extension use the preview pane, unless you were sure the email was safe.

当电子邮件开始使用HTML进行格式化时，一些恶意行为者会在读取电子邮件时利用此优势执行代码(通常是JavaScript)。 在短时间内，打开邮件被认为是危险的，因此除非您确定电子邮件是安全的，否则请使用预览窗格。

But the major email developers of the time, including Microsoft, Pegasus, Eudora, and Apple (there was no Gmail at this point), got on the case very quickly. Within a few short years, the problem was virtually gone because all of the mail clients stopped allowing code to be executed when an email was open. No mail client now allows code to be executed when you open an email, and they haven’t allowed this for well over a decade. So, unless you’re using a very, very old, unpatched email client (think Outlook Express circa 2000 on a Windows 98 machine) your mail program simply won’t allow code to execute when you open an email.

但是当时包括Microsoft，Pegasus，Eudora和Apple(此时还没有Gmail)在内的主要电子邮件开发人员很快就开始了诉讼。 在短短的几年之内，问题几乎消失了，因为所有电子邮件客户端都停止了打开电子邮件时执行代码的操作。 现在，没有任何邮件客户端允许您在打开电子邮件时执行代码，并且十多年来，它们都不允许这样做。 因此，除非您使用的是非常非常旧的未打补丁的电子邮件客户端(例如Windows 98计算机上的Outlook Express，大约在2000年)，否则您的邮件程序根本不会在打开电子邮件时执行代码。

Unless you’re reading this article from the early 2000s with a time machine, you should be safe.

除非您使用时间机器阅读2000年代初的这篇文章，否则您应该是安全的。

这是真正的危险 (Here’s the Real Danger)

On top of this, all the major providers of email accounts, including Microsoft, Apple, Gmail, and Yahoo! have sophisticated virus and malware detection tools that stop viruses and malware getting to your inbox anyway. This doesn’t mean that there is no threat from email, but the threat now requires you to do something like open an attachment or click a link. Worryingly, there are occasional articles that still suggest the preview pane is a danger, but we wouldn’t recommend following such outdated and incorrect advice.

最重要的是，所有主要的电子邮件帐户提供商，包括Microsoft，Apple，Gmail和Yahoo! 具有完善的病毒和恶意软件检测工具，可以阻止病毒和恶意软件始终进入您的收件箱。 这并不意味着没有来自电子邮件的威胁，但是威胁现在要求您执行打开附件或单击链接之类的操作。 令人担忧的是，偶尔有文章仍然暗示预览窗格是一种危险，但是我们不建议您遵循这样的过时和不正确的建议。

The problem doesn’t exist anymore, so by turning off the preview pane, the only thing you’re doing is making life more difficult for yourself.

问题不再存在，因此通过关闭预览窗格，您唯一要做的就是使自己的生活更加困难。

As we’ve put it before, opening emails is safe. The risk comes from following phishing links and opening dangerous attachments. Those risks are the same whether you’re using a desktop client like Microsoft Outlook or web-based email like Gmail.

正如我们之前所说，打开电子邮件是安全的。 风险来自跟踪网络钓鱼链接和打开危险附件。 无论您使用的是Microsoft Outlook等桌面客户端还是Gmail等基于Web的电子邮件，这些风险都是一样的。

Unless your email client or web browser contains an unpatched security hole malicious emails can exploit, you’re fine. That shouldn’t be the case—you should be using an up-to-date email client and web browser. Don’t use an ancient, no-longer-updated email client. (You’d be surprised how many people do.)

除非您的电子邮件客户端或Web浏览器包含未修补的安全漏洞，否则恶意电子邮件可以利用。 事实并非如此，您应该使用最新的电子邮件客户端和Web浏览器。 不要使用古老的，不再更新的电子邮件客户端。 (您会惊讶地发现有这么多人。)

So yes, it is safe to use the preview pane, and may you enjoy the productivity boost it gives you! We highly recommend giving Gmail’s preview pane a spin.

因此，可以，使用预览窗格是安全的，并且您可能会喜欢它所带来的生产力提高！ 我们强烈建议您尝试一下Gmail的预览窗格。

翻译自: https://www.howtogeek.com/413435/is-it-safe-to-preview-your-email/