Most people consider an email open anytime a user literally opens an email. In other words, an open occurs when a user clicks on a message in their inbox and views it, either in the preview pane or a separate window.

With the Gmail Preview Pane from Gmail Labs you can quickly preview your email messages without opening them. This tool opens a pane next to your inbox that displays the text of incoming messages. Use the Gmail Preview Pane to check your email messages quickly.

Previewing emails allows you to quickly validate your email content using different contacts and screen sizes. No emails are sent when you preview and you cannot preview using different email clients.

The preview text is a short message that displays below the subject line in many email clients, such as Gmail and Outlook. It’s that teaser that gives more info about the email. In regular email exchanges, it often relays the email’s opening.

The main reason why the preview pane is considered ‘safe’ compared to opening the attachment is the ‘previewer’. Previewers are plug-ins to Outlook that display a version of the attachment in the preview pane. They are separate from the main program you’d use to view or edit those documents (like Word or Excel).

Microsoft has enforced rather strict security standards in the Outlook application and previewing an email in normal circumstances is absolutely safe.

Preview your emails

1. On your computer, go to Gmail .
2. At the top right, click Settings. See all settings.
3. On the top, select the Inbox tab. scroll to Reading pane.
4. Check the “Enable reading pane” box.
5. Select your split pane mode: No split. Right of inbox. Below inbox.
6. At the bottom, click Save changes.

You can enable and customize preview mode at any time.

1. Launch Outlook and click on “View” within the ribbon.
2. Click “Message Preview” to reveal a drop-down menu.
3. Select “1 Line,” “2 Lines” or “3 Lines” to customize the size of the preview field for your messages.

between 35-90 characters
How Long is the Preview Text? The answer to this question depends on the email client used by those on your email lists. Email preview text is generally between 35-90 characters, while some email clients may show up to 140 characters.

Email preview text is generally between 35-90 characters, while some email clients may show up to 140 characters. There are also email clients that don’t display any preview text.

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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.

The preview text is a short message that displays below the subject line in many email clients, such as Gmail and Outlook. It’s that teaser that gives more info about the email. In regular email exchanges, it often relays the email’s opening. “Dear Katja, Thanks for your email…”

How long should preview text be? Unfortunately, there’s no hard and fast rule about email preview text length. As preview text settings can be changed by your subscriber in their email client, your subscriber could see anywhere from 5 lines of preview text (that’s about 278 characters) to 0 lines of preview text.

Display a message preview in the message list. For a way to quickly scan your Inbox, try Message Preview, where you can choose to display between one and three lines of each message in the message list, along with the sender’s name and the subject line. On the View tab, select Message Preview, and then choose an option.