IPhone Mail Mark as Read/Mark as Unread PLEASE ALREADY!

Please send feedback to Apple to have then add the following long overdue functionality:
Mark Read
Mark Unread
Mark All Read
Mark All Unread
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

Thanks, CT, but I really want Mail to NEVER mark anything as read automatically because I often open a message and skim it to assess its urgency, then leave it for later. Your suggestion would at least mean that a message isn't marked read just because the cursor happened to land on it, but what a nuisance to have to turn off the preview pane and do all that extra clicking when all I need is for Apple to think for five seconds about how people actually work, and to understand that we need to control our own activities, not have some anonymous coder make those decisions for us based on ... what? No research, no analysis, no thinking - just the first notion that came into his or her head. Sorry to rant - it really does cause me genuine stress.
I've looked at various alternative mail/calender/task clients, but can't find one that syncs with other devices. Or one that allows you to attach a reminder (with date and alarm options) to a message. I have Mail Hub and Fantastical installed. I just need one more plug-in that controls the read/unread behaviour properly and my life would suddenly be manageable and tolerable. It seems like so little to ask. I hope somebody else knows of such a plug-in.
Not being a coder and a fairly recent Mac convert, I know nothing about Apple Script, but I did wonder if the behaviour could be controlled with a script or an amendment somewhere else. All suggestions welcome - and extra gratitude for 'for dummies' explanations.

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Hello queenbea4,
You may need to place a tick mark for "Include when automatically checking for new messages" under the Advanced pane of your iCloud account's settings in Mail's Preferences. This can be found by going to the Mail menu, then to Preferences. Under the Accounts tab, choose your iCloud account, then the Advanced tab to the right.
Lion Mail: Advanced accounts preferences
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH4782
Cheers,
Allen

Messages not marked read if last unread message

I sort incoming mail into various folders
I use the "Move to next unread" button to go through messages
I configured mail to be marked read immediately upon display
This works perfectly till I reach the last unread message in any folder - clicking the "move to next unread" button will move me to the next folder with an unread message, BUT, the last unread message in the just exited folder is left marked unread
I've tried compacting my folders, deleting my .msf files, and, the 'repair folder' option in the properties pages of the folders, but nothing has worked
Can any one suggest something else to try?

re: Does it do this if you use the arrow keys on your keyboard to move to next in the list; the last one?
''The down arrow key only moves the focus to the following folder, and does not land on or display a message in that folder ''
If the focus is on the Folder in the Folder Pane , then the arrows will move up and down the Folder Pane list.
If the focus in on a selected email in the list of emails you can use the up and down arrows to move up and down the list. As you select an email, it is displayed in the Message Pane below and marked as read. I use this method alot as it is quicker than moving the mouse over any buttons.
I'm trying to work out if this is something related only to the 'Next unread button' or whether something else is conflicting. I presume if you click on the email it is marked as read..
So please tell me if the use of arrows to select emails, still causes the issue.
Test if the Sort Order effects the marking of the last unread email.
Please select the following Sort Order and tell me if the 'Next unread' button works with a different Sort by order.
View > Sort by > Date - Descending - unthreaded
Do you use the 'Quick Filter Bar' to 'Show only unread messages' - icon looks likea pair of sunglasses?
If no. could you please test.
Select the 'Show only unread messages' - then use the 'Move to the Next unread mesage' button.
Does it still fail to mark the last email as read?
What version of Thunderbird are you using?
What OS ?
Confirm Pop or imap mail account?
Please test whether their are any addons causing a conflict:
In Thunderbird
'Help > 'REstart with Addons disabled'
then use the Next unread button method to see if it works ok.
If it works ok then an addon is causing an issue.

TS4208 Apple Mail client no longer marks my mail as read on all my iOS devices. If I read a email on my iPhone and later open Mail on my iPad, the iPad still shows the email as unread.This changed recently, perhaps after iOS7 upgrade. Did I miss a setting

Apple Mail client no longer marks my mail as read on all my iOS devices. If I read a email on my iPhone and later open Mail on my iPad, the iPad still shows the email as unread.This changed recently, perhaps after iOS7 upgrade. Did I miss a setting? All mail account are IMA. iCloud is set to push, business mail is set to fetch every 15 minutes.

Read thier own support document on the subject then
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1795
This document was written as an answer to all those who complained about it as paying MobileMe users
They ignored us then and when MobileMe became iCloud they ignored us again, and just carried on with a system that will not update the e-mail read status across all devices
That's how it works, and like you 1000's of loyal Apple users cant believe it either but there you go

ActiveSync Issues - Emails remain unread on iPhones after marked as read in OWA/Outlook

Environment:
Exchange 2010 SP2 CU4v2
iPhones with IOS 6.0+
Background:
We've spent a couple weeks troubleshooting this since the vast majority of our users are not experiencing the email synching issue with their mobile devices. However, we have a few users that are remote (international) saying that activesync is not properly
marking mail as read when initially interacting with it via OWA/Outlook.
The problem isn't regularly reproducable -- it's sporadic.
There are two issues really:
The mail icon indicates X number of unread messages, however when navigating into the mailbox on the phone, nothing is "unread" -- There is only one mailbox -- there is no confusion about unread mail being in a different account.
Mail marked as read in OWA/Outlook never gets marked as read in the mailbox on the iPhone.
Steps Taken:
We've had them remove/readd the activesync account on their device, which initially solves the problem only for it to resuface.
We've asked them to change their activesync settings between Push, Fetch, and Manual.
Messages marked as unread always remain unread unless manually opened on the phone. No additional amount of time marks the message as unread unless it is manually opened on the phone.
We've asked users to try interacting with mail through wifi on a reliable network instead of their cellular network. Same results.
We don't have any other mobile devices to compare to since everyone is using an iPhone. If only someone had windows mobile.
Our thoughts are that this is due to some sort of latency issue that activesync is unable to handle, since only these remote users are experiencing the issue. Using in-office wifi the latency between their device and the CAS server is ~250ms. Over cellular
networks.. unknown. I would think the activesync could handle this.
Are there any server-side settings that can be changed on the exchange servers that could mitigate these problems?

Im sure more knowledgeable members will chime in here, but I would say the issue is in ios 6.0 here. The way to test would be if users on previous verison of ios have the same issue. There are various discussions on apples forums regarding ios 6.0 and activesync/
exchange. Myself personally I have not updated to ios 6.0 and im still using 5.1.1 and Ive not had any exchange/activesync issues. Being a windows user you tend to hold off on major updates / SP releases until the rest of the masses have discovered the flaws.
Likewise i cant say im keen to jump to ios 6.0 just yet.
Good read here :
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19651119#19651119
Out of interest what happens if you read the email/delete it from the phone ? does it show as being read within Microsoft Outlook ?

Messages automatically marked as read in yahoo and unread in Mail

I typically use yahoo.com to view/read my yahoo mail, but I would like the option of viewing in Mail as well. However, when I launch my Mail account, all messages remain "unread" (whether I've read them or not in yahoo.com). And when I go to my yahoo.com account after opening Mail, all messages (whether I've read them or not in Mail) are automatically marked as "read". This is extremely frustrating as I would like both Mail and yahoo.com to reflect read and unread emails appropriately.
I do not have this problem when I use the Mail app on my iPhone.
Please help! Thank you!

UPDATE: In addition to all mail being marked as "unread" in yahoo.com, most messages older than a few days old are also deleted. They still appear in Mail, but I need to read them in yahoo.com as well. In addition, Mail does not contain the folders from yahoo.com, so all messages appear in Mail as one big "unread" mess in my inbox. Again, these issues are not a problem with the iPhone app. Thank you!

I have a macbook, an ipad, and an iphone with the Mail app on all three synced through icloud, but when I read and delete emails on my phone, the inbox on my ipad is not update, so I have to go through and mark as read or delete messages again. How can I

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POP: yahoo, aol, comcast/time warnder/road runner
Imap: google, hotmail, and more including icloud.
If you want to use multiple devices - move to imap, I would even say "exchange", but Google does not support free exchange anymore, since January of that year. So Ironically Icloud or Hotmail would be my choices right now.
To find out more about what happens to you, search on Google "difference between pop and imap"

When I open my mail app it shows that I have unread mail, so I click mark all read and carry on my business. About 2 seconds later all the mail I just marked comes back unread. This keeps happening, what can I do?

Everytime I get a new email, I open the mail app and mark it as read. Recently, whenever I receive emails I mark them all read yet 2 seconds later they are all marked unread. I again mark them all read and the same thing happens. I now have 95 emails from 2 weeks ago that I clearly marked read but they won't stay read. What can I do?

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Is it possible to flag e-mails and/or right click an e-mail to mark as read/unread, etc. when using Microsoft Outlook Web Access in Firefox on a Mac?

Is it possible to flag e-mails and/or right click an e-mail to mark as read/unread, etc. when using Microsoft Outlook Web Access in Firefox on a Mac?
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When you use OWA in something other than IE, you're using OWA lite and no--it is not possible to do either in OWA lite (well, new Exchange stuff makes my answer a little less emphatic but still: pretty much no). Thanks Microsoft. But this guy made it possible to mark unread/read and select all/none:
http://david-burger.blogspot.com/2008/07/firefox-greasemonkey-outlook-web-access_19.html

Messages delivered to iPhone 4s are marked as read in outlook

I just got my iPhone working with Outlook. When messages are delivered to my iPhone they are automatically marked as read in Outlook. This happens even before I open a message on my iPhone. Is there a setting that will allow me to keep messages marked as unread until I read them in Outlook?

If it is an Exchange account or an IMAP account, read/unread marks synchronize with the server and all clients set up to access it via IMAP or Exchange protocols. If one or more of the clients is using POP3, then unread marks do not synchronize. Same goes for the ability to see and file to folders.
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Emails marked as read on iphone when outlook is opened?

Hello,
I have had a recurring problem which has resulted in a number of important emails being missed - I've researched as much as I can but have been unable to rectify it!
I use a 123reg email address on both my iPhone (5S, iOS8) and on Outlook for Mac (2011) on a MacBook Air OSX 10.8.5
Whenever Outlook connects to a wifi connection and fetches my emails, all of these emails become marked as 'read' on my iphone - really frustrating as sometimes I'll leave those I wish to action later marked as unread.
Currently, outlook has my email account marked as a POP account.
My account is also set up on my iPhone as a POP account.
Please help me as I'm reaching my wits end!

This is not a client issue, POP accounts do NOT sync but IMAP accounts do, find out how your accounts are actually setup. If they are POP then they are not working correctly and you should consult MS support (for Outlook) or your mail provider.

Read marks in mail for Imac is not update from other devices

I have a new Imac, using my live account I cannot get the read marks to work properly. If I read mail on iPad or iPhone the appear as unread on iMAC and vice versa. on the phone and ipad it works as I want - it is only on the iMac I have the problem. Is there some ticbox I have missed in the settings??

@live.com accounts use POP3 and not IMAP
here is a nice explanation for POP3 vs IMAP
http://www.geek.com/mobile/geek-101-pop-vs-imap-1536343/

Why are new unread messages marked as read?

These problems popped up out of the blue last week. Nothing has changed in the Mail settings. I've worked with my ISP to isolate the problem as a Mac problem, not an ISP issue.
1. The new messages downloaded into Mail are not marked as unread, even if they they've never been opened or previewed. An occasional email will mark as unread. However, even if 5-10 new emails are downloaded at a time, they will usually all be identified as read.
The unread count doesn't change, even when new unread messages are downloaded.
2. At the same time that the issue popped up with the unread emails, a new Mail issue started. When Mail checks for updates it often shows that a new email is being downloaded and gives the audio alert for a new mail, but nothing has actually downloaded. I've checked my filters, trash and web mail to confirm that no new emails exist.
What I've tried:
1. There are no software updates.
2. Worked with ISP to identify the issue as being a Mail issue. Settings are all appropriate.
3. Disabled Mail account, shut down Mail, shut down Mac, restarted Mac, enabled Mail. Problem continues.

This might be way off base because I do not have a really good understanding of email systems, but look at these:
1. When you Sync your iPhone, under the "Info" tab in iTunes, do you have it set to sync your email settings? If this is not checked, your iPhone and computer Mail settings could be different and Mail could think you read a message on your iPhone when you haven't.
2. In Settings in your iPhone, go to Mail, Contacts, Calendars>Your Account>Account Info>make sure everything is correct here and then>Advanced> check incoming settings and see if there is anything in IMAP Path Prefix. I think this should be blank for your POP account.
Also, since this is a POP account, by definition, if you have read a message, shouldn't it be excluded from your Inbox? I'm guessing there is a IMAP vs POP conflict somewhere.

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How can I make a rule to mark all messages sent to Mail Trash as Read?
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Just in the case that I actually do need to go back to them for some reason. I have some OCD tendencies which is also why the number beside the folder drives me nuts.

Mail on iOS 5 and iCloud sync (Mails are not marked as read when I read them on my MacBook)

Hello everyone,
I am an iOS 5 and OS X Lion User in Germany and I have following question concering Mail on iOS 5 and iCloud.
I have a MacBook Pro 13" with OS X Lion 10.7.2 and an iPhone 4 with iOS 5. I also have an iCloud account (I switched yesterday from MobileMe).
When I receive a new e-Mail it will be pushed immediately to my iPhone an my MacBook. When I open this new e-mail on my iPhone, it is immediately marked as read on my MacBook. But when I open the new e-mail on my MacBook, it is not marked as read on my iPhone. I have manually to sync mail first.
Does anyone know if this feature is not supported on iCloud and iOS 5? Thanks for your help!

Add me to the list of people having this problem.
I have 1 Gmail account a 2 Google Apps accounts and this happens with all 3. If I read a messaging in Mail.app, it DOES get marked read on my iPod Touch, though.
If I read the emails on my iPod Touch, BlackBerry, or Gmail web interface, the read status does not get synced back to Mail.app unless I close and re-open it.
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IPhone Mail Mark as Read/Mark as Unread PLEASE ALREADY!

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