Marking messages as "read" AFTER opening WITHOUT using 'Message Pane'
Back in 2015 someone asked about the fact that emails are not marked "as read" once opened but I don't think the answer was ever fully given. They were told: "This option has always been available and I use it. via Menu Bar Tools > Options > Advanced > Reading & Display or via menu icon menu icon > Options > Options > Advanced > Reading & Display select: 'automatically mark messages as read' Select: 'Immediately on display' click on OK When you select/left click an email in the list, it will auto open and display in the Message Pane below the list. If you use double click, it will auto open in a new tab or window depending upon what you selected. In bth instances the message will be immediately marked as read." Here's my problem with that .... I don't use the "Message Pane", I don't like it. I have my incoming messages set at "table view" and they are all just listed down the page by date. I don't want to see what's in the email until I actually open it....but, once I open it and read it when I close out of it the email still stays BOLD in the list....this didn't used to happen, once I read the email the BOLD went away. When I use the "automatically mark message as read immediately on display" then new emails are not in BOLD so I can't tell if they've been read or not. Bottom line, is there a way to have messages marked "read" AFTER they are opened WITHOUT using the message pane??
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This is confusing to me. The message pane is where the contents of a message are displayed, but you say you do not use that. Anyway, while this may not address your issue, I suggest setting to automatically mark read after viewing for 5 seconds. That is my setting and messages to not turn from bold to plain unless the message has been opened at least briefly.
I am attaching a pic of what my emails look like ... when I go into 'view' and mark "message pane" it looks different and I don't like it. In the pic the ones in BOLD have not been read and the ones without bold have. Before, when I would double click and open an email it would automatically mark it as "read" when I closed out of it but now it stays BOLD and I have to manually mark it as 'read'....but, when I go into settings and tell it to "automatically mark read after viewing for 5 seconds (or any other amount of time)" then it does automatically mark it whether I've actually read it or not so then I miss reading some. Does that help make more sense?
I cannot duplicate that. I use the 5-second delay and it works perfectly. I am using Win 11 and ver 115.7. You might try this in help>troubleshoot mode to see if this is being caused by an addon.