Mail.app marks messages as read when they are downloaded

I'm using mail to pop my messages from an exchange server, and the messages are being left on the server, but marked as read. I want them to be left as unread - is there any way to do this?
Most recent version of Mail and Snow Leopard.
Thanks!

I don't know if it will work, but try rebuilding the mailbox. This can take awhile if you have a lot of mail.
Rebuild mailbox

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I miss the feature "Automatically mark message as read when opened" as was found in Eudora

This would make Thunderbird much mor user friendly as the two present alternatives are just annoying.

As I said in my last reply, there is no message preview. You have the choice of reading in a message pane in the main windows along with the mail lists, on a tab (double click) or if you change the settings in a window. But there is no preview hence mail is marked read when you read it.
You appear to be looking for a feature that simply does not exist.

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Since downloading the ios7 update on my iphone 5s I have had an issue with my emails. I have two accounts (both yahoo) linked my phone which I use for business. Therefore receiving emails is of the utmost importance. Basically what happens is this. I will receive a tone to say I have an incoming email. When I look at the home screen it may show as an example that I have 2. However, when I click into the email icon on the home screen to read the incoming mail it shows many more received earlier that I was notified if and they are shown as read. I spoke to apple about this several weeks ago and they advised me to reset my phone, which I did. It fixed the problem but now several weeks later it has come back. Can anyone help as apple have no clue as to how this happening. It is getting to the point where I am losing business as clients email me to say they sent a mail several days previously which clearly I have missed. I don't have this problem with my ipad - the emails are working perfect on that.

Sounds like you both have the same messed up add on. Try restarting Thunderbird with the add ons disabled and see if things go back to normal.
You can do this from the Help Menu.

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I've got a 4s running iOS 6.1.3. Our work email is hosted on a POP3 server but but we have to set it up on our iPhones as a IMAP because setting it up as a POP3 causes a number of other problems. The problem I am having is that my PHONE is marking new emails as 'read' when it downloads them from the server before they have ever been view. I know this problem exists on the phone because they are not marked as read on the host server. I have logged into the email account online to verify this and they are not marked as read anywhere but on my iPhone. I have two different work email accounts, a Hotmail account and 2 Gmail accounts set up on this phone. I have this problem with BOTH work accounts but none of the others. One of the work accounts has ALLLL of the new emails marked as read. Earlier today I had 20 email scome thru all at once while I had my phone in my hand. I watched them all download and then watched as one by one they were all marked as 'read' without me doing anything. I am the only one in my office having this problem and I personally set up all of their iPhones just like mine. I have no clue what is wrong or how to fix it. It is not a new problem for me as it has been going on for over a year. But this weekend I missed a very important email because I didn't receive the new mail notification. Something like this could cost me my job.

Back up all data. Rebuild the mailbox.

Suddenly jpg photos are displayed incorrectly (like overlit), also when they are downloaded which means that the files somehow get corrupted. The same photos look perfect in Safari.

Firefox displays large jpg photos incorrectly, they are all like over lit and there is a real quality loss since just right clicking on a link of the photos and downloading them also displays them incorrectly in any photo tool. Looking at the photos in Safari and downloading them there displays no quality loss. I really hope this can be fixed.
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== A few days ago, maybe with the last update

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== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== A few days ago, maybe with the last update

IPhone 4S is marking messages as read when received . This only happens if I have Thunderbird open on my destop.

Help.
How do I properly set up either IPhone 4S and/or Thunderbird 7.0.1 so that messages downloaded to both IPhone and Thunderbird are not marked as read until actually opened on either my desktop or IPhone.
My IPhone is IMAP configured for connection to my office email account.
Any help most appreciated.

Is the media actually synced to the phone?

Keep getting kicked out of apps or videos or Facebook when they are loading. Data usage says low memory...

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How to prevent mail app on OS X & iOS from automatically marking email messages as read just when they are selected either intentionally or not

Good morning guys
is there a way to prevent mail app on OS X & iOS from automatically marking email messages as read just when they are selected either intentionally or not
thanks

On OS X, You are able to hide the preview window on the right in normal mode, or on the lower side in classic mode, by simply putting your cursor on the thin bar which is in between, and then make it as small as possible, so it goes away.
Then your messages won't be automatically read when clicked once, but only if you click them twice and a new window with the message opens.
Also, you are able to mark them as unread again, which is a silly workaround, but possible.
You can do that by right clicking and select 'Mark as...' -> unread.
On iOS, I'm not sure..

Hi! Since I installed Mavericks, all the messages in mail I receive are marked as read, when they're not! Can anyone explain to me how to make them appear as not read, so I notice them? Thank's

Hi! Since I installed Mavericks, all the messages in mail I receive are marked as read, when they're not! Can anyone explain to me how to make them appear as not read, so I notice them? Thank's

I don't know if it will work, but try rebuilding the mailbox. This can take awhile if you have a lot of mail.
Rebuild mailbox

Email messages in mailbox marked as read when they arrive on Blackberry

We are using Outlook Exchange 2007; from yesterday when I added a new email address it is marking messages in the mailbox as read when they arrive on Blackberry 8520 Curve. Can't for the life of me find the setting to change it and am losing the will to live! Any help appreciated.

Hi interferingmother,
Welcome to the BlackBerry Support Community.
Is your email account integrated as POP on your BlackBerry® Curve™ 8520 smartphone? If it is, this KB article should provide some ways to resolve this issue. "Email messages on a Microsoft Exchange Server are marked as read when accessed via POP" http://bbry.lv/KvCTaM
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Mail not marking messages/conversations as read correctly

Dear All,
I recently got rid of Outlook for Mac (too buggy) and came back to Mail (much improved during my absence ). I have an Exchange account, plus a GMail and a iCloud. I use Mountain Lion from a Mac Mini and a Macbook Pro, and they both show the same problem.
The problem is the following (occurs at least on the Exchange account - probably also on the others, but I use them less, so I am not 100% sure at the moment):
1. Certain messages are not marked as read after viewing, and they keep showing as Unread until I mark them as read manually.
2. in addition to that, when messages are grouped by conversation, the conversations containing some of such messages, in their "collapsed" form, often do not show the last message received as you expect, but some older message - which makes the risk of marking the conversation as read by mistake much more likely, even if there are some truly unread messages in it. You just see an old message/conversation showing as unread, so you just mark it as read, and miss all newer messages. This has already caused a couple of incidents at work, and it's only one week I came back to Mail.
For problem 1. I have seen other threads in Apple Support Communities, but sadly, all the "solutions" are just workarounds - close and reopen Mail, deactivate and reactivate the mail account, mark manually, and so on - I know they work, but the problem is always there, and my guestimate is that it affects 5-10% of the emails I receive, which implies a continuous annoyance, given the number of email we all receive nowadays.
So, I am looking for some real solution, not the usual workarounds which actually do not resolve much. Please please please, spare me the shame to come back to Outlook - I will be grateful forever
Thank you,
Alfonso

So it seems nobody has an answer... I have to enjoy marking messages as read manually all day...

Mail will not mark messages as read after being opened

Mail will not mark messages as read after being opened... the blue dot will NOT go away, no matter how many times I open the e-mail.
It's a simple pop account. I AM able to mark messages read with the message menu item (mark as read.) I also have nothing synced with it, no iPhone, no IMAP accounts, no .mac account, nothing.
But this is a real pain to have to do manually, when it used to happen automatically upon clicking the e-mail, it opening in a window to read, and then closing it.
All was working fine up until the 10.5.7 update. I hoped the 10.5.8 update would fix the problem, but no change. Everything else is working perfectly (I do the permissions repair/disk verify procedure before and after each update.)
Can't seem to find anyone else with this problem in here either, through search or just going through hundreds of messages.

Okay, then lets try this:
1. Select all your messages in the Inbox; then use the contextual menu or the Message > Mark menu to mark them all as Read.
2. Quit Mail.
3. Go to Home/Library/Mail and delete the Envelope Index file.
4. Restart Mail, wait for the index to rebuild and retrieve any new email you might have, and see if the problem contineus. Hopefully it will not.

Hi, i downloaded ios 5 to ipad 2 and when I rebooted, all 2000 emails that i had recieved, read and trashed are downloading again. They are coming through 25 at a time eaach time I check mail. How do I stop this happening?

Hi, i downloaded ios 5 to ipad 2 and when I rebooted, all 2000 emails that i had recieved, read and trashed are downloading again. They are coming through 25 at a time eaach time I check mail. How do I stop this happening?

Use your PC to sign-on to your mail service using the browser interface they provide. Delete all the e-mails you don't want on the server. That will prevent the iPad from downloading them.

How do I change the default from"Mark message as read by date" to "Mark message as read"?

When I migrated from Windows XP to Windows 7 I downloaded & installed a new version of Thunderbird (v4.10.2) and retrieved my Mail files to the new profile. Everything seems to be working properly except that whenever I close an open message I get the "Mark messages as read by date" popup which has the current date but wants me to specify a starting date. This didn't happen in my previous installations (I've used Thunderbird for years). Options / Advanced / Reading & Display has "Automatically mark messages as read" checked and "Immediately on display" set, but I haven't found anything that lets me choose "Mark as read" rather than "Mark as read by date". How do I turn the "by date" off?
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'Mark Message as read by Date'
This can be invoked by right click on email in list and select 'Mark' > 'As read by date' to invoke the 'Mark Message as read by Date' pop up window.
If you are reading an email in either the Message Pane or in a new tab and press the 'C' key, this will open the 'Mark Message as read by Date' pop up window.
So can you tell us exactly how you are ''closing'' a previously unread message.
Do you select an email in the list so that it displays in the Message Pane? Then you do not need to close it because this will auto happen when you select another email in the list.
OR do you double click to open an email in a tab. Then how do you close it? There are some options on how to do this:
# Do you click on the small 'x' located in the tab?
# do you use 'Ctrl'+'W' ?
# Do you right click on tab to show drop down options and then press 'C' key?
I notice that there is a similar action - pressing of 'C' key.
If you do not right click to get drop down, but instead just use 'C' key, you will invoke the 'Mark Message as read by Date' window.
Can you check what it is you are doing

When trying to download an app, a message pops up and says "cannot download due to not enough memory". I have checked there seems to be enough memory on pc and ipod?

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Mail.app marks messages as read when they are downloaded

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