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Thunderbird 151.0.1 (64bit) reads letters itself

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Radoslav Borisov
Radoslav Borisov

Hello,

I have this problem. On only 1 PC from 5, with same mailboxes installed and same configurations, on one of the mailboxes, Thunderbird does not accept setting to "not read" the letter. I tried making time to read the letter and it worked for 10 min, and then again stopped. At final, no matter how it is set, when I push to read the message it always read it.

Tried repairing the folder, but doesn't work.


Any Ideas will be great.

Thank you

Hello, I have this problem. On only 1 PC from 5, with same mailboxes installed and same configurations, on one of the mailboxes, Thunderbird does not accept setting to "not read" the letter. I tried making time to read the letter and it worked for 10 min, and then again stopped. At final, no matter how it is set, when I push to read the message it always read it. Tried repairing the folder, but doesn't work. Any Ideas will be great. Thank you

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Lin
Lin
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Are you referring to Thunderbird marking a message as Read after selecting it? The setting that controls that behavior is found at <Settings | General | Reading & Display | "Automatically mark messages as read">. You can set this for a specific length of time or turn it off entirely, in which case the message will remain marked as Unread until you manually change it (you can use the M key to toggle that state.)

Radoslav Borisov
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Hello,

As I said. Changing this setting makes no change in behavior of Thunderbird.

If you have other suggestions will be greatly appreciated.


Thanks,

Lin
Lin
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What version of Thunderbird? What is your operating system? Are these IMAP accounts or POP3?

Radoslav Borisov
Radoslav Borisov Küsimuse esitaja

Thunderbird 151.0.1 (64bit)

Windows 10 22h2 19045.6466

IMAP

Muudetud Radoslav Borisov poolt

Lin
Lin
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This doesn't make sense to me. If you mark a message in an IMAP folder Read or Unread, its status would also change on all other installations that use IMAP. Likewise, if you change the status elsewhere, it would show on this one.

Restart Thunderbird in Troubleshoot mode - see <Help | Troubleshoot Mode>. Does it still behave this way?

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