Is there a workaround to an ISP's unread email retention policy?

My ISP (Cox) has a policy where any unread email in the inbox is deleted after 60 days.  This doesn't make a lot of sense to me since they will indefinitely retain any "read" email or any unread email transferred to a folder outside of the inbox.
This wasn't a problem when I was using POP to access my email since all messages were downloaded to my computer and it didn't matter if the email was eventually removed from the server.  I would like to switch over to IMAP access now that Cox is offering it as an option.  Since an IMAP account essentially reflects what is on the server, automatic deletion of messages by the ISP is now a problem.
The only way I can avoid these deletions is to mark the message as read before it reaches the 60 day threshold, or move it from the inbox.  There doesn't seem to be a automatic way to have Mail do this.  I can create a rule, but I would need to manually apply the rule on a daily basis since rules automatically run only on new messages.  I suspect there is a way to do this using Applescript, but I am not experienced using it. 
Keeping Unread messages has some importance to me.  The Preview pane in Mail often gives me enough info to understand the response in a message without reading it.  I also do web development work where I need to monitor system generated emails and it is useful to have access to historical emails to debug email issues - I shouldn't have to read each one in order to make sure it isn't deleted.
This is really an ISP issue and not a Mail issue, although it would be great if the Mail Rules feature could be applied to previously received emails automatically.  If any of you out there have figured out a way to work around this kind of issue, it would like to hear about t.

I am trying to avoid having to perform a daily manual process (I monitor about a dozen email accounts - not all of them from ISP's with the 60 day deletion window).  The ISP's 60 day deletion window is rolling - each day different existing messages are about to reach the threshold.  I don't want to mark messages as Read for all messages, just those that are about to be 60 days old.  I know that I can do this by creating a smart mailbox that only has messages that are 59 days old, select all of the smart mailbox messages and then right-click and "Mark as Read", but this would have to be a daily, manual process. 

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