How do you set Mail to mark a message as "read" only when you open it

I'm using Apple Mail. Works great, but I have one big issue I can't figure out. I want my messages to be marked as read ONLY if I double click or actually physically open the message....not when I click it once with the mouse or if it gets selected in the inbox message pane. The way it's set up, all my mail is read the minute I click on it. This is extremely annoying and I can't find anywhere where you can set this preference. HELP.
does this make sense to anybody??
OSX Tiger 10.4.7

The OP's question makes sense and Scott's comment is correct. You can have Mail setup so that there is the list of folders on the left, the list of emails in that folder in the top right hand side and the selected message in the pane below that on the lower right hand side. In that case clicking on a message in the list of messages will display it below and Mail will deem you to have read it. On the other hand if you drag down the divider and get rid of the pane in which the message displays then selecting it does not mark it read. Double-clicking it should bring it up in a new window and cause the message to be marked read.
Basically Mail marks the message read when it has displayed (some of) the message in some place (ie a separate window or the lower right hand side pane) where you could have read it
Michael

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