All my emails download in Mail as "flagged" already!

Hi Everyone!
Well, I have tried about all I can think of, and I have asked other Mac users, and now I am coming to this forum for some wisdom from other Mac sages and users.
I have this incredible annoyance which began with OS 10.5 and has continue in 10.6.
My Apple Mail app downloads my emails from Gmail, Yahoo, Windows Live, and all the email that is downloaded, comes already with the red flag. They the red flag disappears when I read an email.
All I have to do is click on the email, and the red flag disappears.
Is their a way to change this? Is there a way that my emails download without being red flagged?
Your help would be appreciated.

Hey Sam,
I just had the same issue too. It has to do with the rules set in Mail.
If you go to preferences and then to the rules tab which is on the
extreme right. You will see a number of rules and checkboxes.
One of the rules forces Mail to flag all the emails you receive. It
is obviously one of the checked rules. So if you click on the rules,
and go to Edit, you will get an idea of what each individual rule does.
The rule which cause Mail to flag emails on my computer was called
Mail FX. I just unchecked it and disabled it. You can delete it but I too,
but I don't know if this will cause an issue. I prefer to be better safe than
sorry and unchecked it and its working fine now.
Mihir

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