How to not mark an email as read when it is selected in the inbox?

Hi,
It makes me a bit crazy that every time an email is selected in the list of emails it is automatically marked as read. Especially if I delete one email, the next one is automatically selected and marked read. If at that point I do not yet want to deal with that next email I always have to mark it unread again?
Is there any way to change this? A solution for me would be to only mark them read if I click the inbox away by clicking on the mail body.
Cheers, Robert

You need to have the account set up as IMAP or Exchange (iCloud, Gmail, Yahoo, etc. automatically do this if you choose that option when you create the account). POP3 accounts do not supporting synchronizing between clients and the server.

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