Hello! When I read emails I always pay a lot of attention to suspect messages and so on, but I’m always a bit scared of clicking the wrong link and getting infected by malwares.
What can be some preventive measures I can take to avoid these risks? Perhaps opening links from emails in a different browsers with JavaScript disabled? Soke kind of sandboxing?
I use Thunderbird as mail client

  • INeedMana@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m not saying that these will make you 100% secure but that’s what makes me feel safe

    1. configure Thunderbird to not display images by default. You can whitelist addresses afterwards or tell Thunderbird to show images for this particular message
    2. configure Thunderbird to always display mails in plain text. You can switch it for the opened mail when it looks ok
    3. if viewing plaintext is too much, configure Thunderbird to show you the real address somewhere on the bottom when you hover over a link (if it doesn’t do this by default). If it looks weird, don’t click it. Usually if the info in the mail is real, you can get to it via browser, you shouldn’t have to click the link
    4. set Thunderbird to always show the real sender e-mail address next to the name set by sender. Get a habit of looking at it when opening mails
    5. while reading smtp headers (there is some button for that when you have an email opened) can be daunting at first, it’s not that hard to understand from it the path the mail took. If none of the addresses on the list seem fine, be cautious