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"Automatically mark message as read" setting

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Graeme replied
Graeme
Graeme

Hell all, Can the "Automatically mark message as read" setting under menu items "tools>options>display" be applied differently to individual email accounts or is it only a global setting? Cheers, Graeme.

Hell all, Can the "Automatically mark message as read" setting under menu items "tools>options>display" be applied differently to individual email accounts or is it only a global setting? Cheers, Graeme.

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Stans
Stans

Chosen Solution

It's global.

Graeme
Graeme Question owner

Thanks for your quick reply Stans. There wouldn't be an add-on that could help would there? Cheers

Stans
Stans

None that I know of, unfortunately.

Graeme
Graeme Question owner

Thanks anyway Stans, Cheers, Graeme.

sfhowes
sfhowes

If you need to have different settings for accounts, in the case of global options, create separate profiles and add accounts to each one. Help/Troubleshooting, about:profiles, to create and manage profiles.

Graeme
Graeme Question owner

Thanks for the idea sfhowes. The user is a complete technophobe. 2 instances of thunderbird would be too much for them to cope with. ;-). Cheers, Graeme