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I want my deleted mail to automatically be marked as read

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Currently my deleted mail shows as unread if I didn't read it. I would like it to automatically show as read. I looked through the options, looked through the filter options and did several google searches, but did not find much on the subject other than someone that had the exact same question, but got shut down for necroposting. This seems like an obvious feature and since there is no one talking about it, I feel like I'm just missing something obvious.

Currently my deleted mail shows as unread if I didn't read it. I would like it to automatically show as read. I looked through the options, looked through the filter options and did several google searches, but did not find much on the subject other than someone that had the exact same question, but got shut down for necroposting. This seems like an obvious feature and since there is no one talking about it, I feel like I'm just missing something obvious.

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Mails read or otherwise stats is purely cosmetic. So I would assume no one is talking about it because it really has no importance, other than perhaps identifying stuff in your trash you have not read. Handy if you looking for a mail someone is complaining you did not respond to. Then you would know that a filter probably placed the mail there. But if a filter places mail in the trash it can mark it as read so again it is not important on that side either. Personal choice.

How do these mails get into your trash folder? The how might identify the why they are not read. one possibility is an anti virus program. They have ventured into mail sorting in recent years and do it badly.

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Mails read or otherwise stats is purely cosmetic. So I would assume no one is talking about it because it really has no importance, other than perhaps identifying stuff in your trash you have not read. Handy if you looking for a mail someone is complaining you did not respond to. Then you would know that a filter probably placed the mail there. But if a filter places mail in the trash it can mark it as read so again it is not important on that side either. Personal choice.

How do these mails get into your trash folder? The how might identify the why they are not read. one possibility is an anti virus program. They have ventured into mail sorting in recent years and do it badly.

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It was something obvious.

The mails I'm referring to are all deleted with a filter.

The accounts in question are kept in a semi-collapsed state so that only the "Inbox" is showing. When it's like that and there are unread mails in the trash, even though there is nothing unread in the inbox, It is the Inbox that is bolded and has a number in parenthesis.

So it appears that I have unread email in my inbox even though those mails are in my trash.

Anyway, I can't explain how I missed the option to mark as read in the filter. It is right there in the list. Very obvious!

Not the first time I've looked right past the thing I'm looking for.

Thanks for pointing that out as it made me go back and look again.