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I miss the feature "Automatically mark message as read when opened" as was found in Eudora

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syntecno
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I know the Thunderbird shows the message when you select it. And then, it marks the message is being read. And that is exactly the problem. I only wish the message to be marked as being read when I double click the message (open it). Just like was the case in Eudora.

This question has already been asked in another thread in 2015... But that thread is closed. I just want to indicate that there are still people who miss this feature in Thunderbird. It would be very easy to add this option: "Automatically mark message as read... After it is opened" Why not do it?

I know the Thunderbird shows the message when you select it. And then, it marks the message is being read. And that is exactly the problem. I only wish the message to be marked as being read when I double click the message (open it). Just like was the case in Eudora. This question has already been asked in another thread in 2015... But that thread is closed. I just want to indicate that there are still people who miss this feature in Thunderbird. It would be very easy to add this option: "Automatically mark message as read... After it is opened" Why not do it?

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Matt
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The answer has not changed over the years. You have seen the mail, be it in the window, a tab or the reading pane, it is read. Turn off the message reading pane (f8) will reduce the chance of a message being marked as read to the other two options.

That will not be changing, despite folks having the misconception that there is a preview pane, such a thing does not exist.

syntecno
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It is a pity that the Thunderbird developers do not see the use of this option. There are a lot of threads asking for this feature:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1082890 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1194755

Moreover, the feature WAS available in Eudora. I hope you will not again start about that there is no preview-panel matt......... We are no talking about the preview-panel.

Again, in Eudora, a message will only be marked 'read' after it has been opened.... Pfff... Matt, I'm so afraid that you again will start about the preview-panel, as an excuse to accuse me that I'm looking for a feature that does not exist....

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Wow, Searching some more, I found this post from e.r.n.i.e....... It is possible afterall, but only if you open messages in a window, not in a tab....

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1194755

Good stuff !

Matt
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Seriously. if you open an email you have read it. That is the universal method of looking at it these days. I am not going to talk about a preview pane because apparently that does not resonate with you. But trying to make a distinction between opening and reading is really just something Eudora users would care about, people still used to doing things a twenty year old way. It dates from a time when people got three emails a week and each contained something useful. I have over 9,000 in my inbox I have never even opened. So really trying to split them another way is pointless in my world.