There is a setting in Outlook that you can turn off the [Preview Pane].
This way message titles will remain in BOLD type, indicating NOT YET VIEWED. It seems a little safer than the default setting of automatically displaying HTML's etc. The only way to view a message is to double click on the message title.
Here's the steps for traversing through the menu settings.
[1] Open Microsoft Outlook.
[2] Choose [View] menu.
[3] Choose [Layout...].
[4] Uncheck [Show preview pane].
[5] Click [Apply] to save this change.
[6] Now relax and enjoy emails from all your fans : )