Mail marks mail as read before I have viewed them

I'm using Mail for my gmail account (IMAP). When I receive a new email it is automatically set as 'read' and do not get a new message counter on the icon in the dock. This was not a problem when using POP (but IMAP works better for me so I'm keeping it).
Anyone able to tell me how to fix this?

then I don't know why this would be happening.
your Mail preferences may be corrupt. quit Mail and delete (or move to the desktop) the file ~/library/preferences/com.apple.mail.plist. ~ means your home directory. you can get to it by clicking on the house icon in the sidebar of any finder window or by going to /users/username.
then start Mail. you'll have to recreate all your email accounts so make sure you know all their settings. once recreated they will recognize their existing mailboxes. see if Mail behaves after that.

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How do I stop Mail marking an item as read as soon as I move the cursor away from it in the ail listing? Just because it is shown in the preview pane does not mean I have read it yet.
In Outlook I can change a setting so that items are not marked a s read until I double click them to open them fully and read them - how do I do the same in Mail?
Also if I delete an item from the list, the cursor moves UP to the previous item (I have ordered the list so that newest mail is at the top. I then start reading from the top down..). Can I change a setting somewhere to move the cursor the other way after processing an email?
Many thanks

The only way to have it not be marked as read is to turn the preview pane off (then you double-click each message to open/read it).

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Hi all.
Pretty new on Mac environment so I apologize for any boring question.
I'm mainly facing two matters at customer locations.
So far I understand MAIL does not support this feature.
I found out truepreview app which helps in solving this cust request.
Even if still some open point. Infact, if canceling a mail from inbox, MAIL opens same mail in paperbin.
Which could cause some security exposures, if I'm not wrong.
Anyone can provide me with help ?
Thanks in advance
Luca

if canceling a mail from inbox, MAIL opens same mail in paperbin.
Which could cause some security exposures, if I'm not wrong.
You're wrong... if I understand you correctly. Viewing a message in Mail will never run malicious scripts on your machine or anything else like that. It is not a security problem. Just be sure you have "Display remote images in HTML messages" turned off in Mail's viewing preferences, which could be used by spammers to verify that you have opened their e-mail.

I don't want to mark emails as read when I have only seen them in preview. How can I do this, so they are only marked as read when actually opened?

every other email client I have used lets me mark a message as read only when I actually double click and read it. and not just when I preview it.

I will, thanks. It looks like I am keener to use your product than you are for me to use it.

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It really has nothing to do with the Email client you are using to send Mail. It does have everything to do with the Recipients Junk/Spam filter they are using. Mac Mail is not flagging your outgoing mail as Junk. No email program does that. It get flagged as Junk by the program the recipient is using.
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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.
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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.

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How do I stop mail marking as Read when using Autoview? I want to actually double click and open the message before it is marked as Read.
OldCroc

You don't, that's just the way it works. Mail is designed so that you don't have to double-click to open a message... just click it and read. However, you could always close the message view pane, by clicking the dividing line between it and the message list and dragging it all the way to the right edge of the window. You'll lose the ability to "preview" messages, but otherwise it should then behave the way you want.

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HHave recently upgraded iPhone to iOS7, and using mail app for Gmail with imap, noticing that a lot of new mail is coming in marked as read, how can I stop new items being marked as read before onset them?

Hello bgdesign and welcome to the Palm forums.
Lots of people, I'm sure are looking for this feature. I've asked for the ability to multiselect messages too. I don't work for Palm/HP so I have no idea when this feature might be coming to Palm webOS.
As a work around, you should be able to mark messages read in your email account when you access it from a PC and the update should sync down if you are using a Google or IMAP server. If you are using a POP email server, I don't think that work around will work.
Alan G

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As the title says. I'd like to find a way to have all my emails marked as "read" in my iphone mail after I've read them in my apple mail or vice versa. I belong to an email mailing list that I receive about 30 emails every day on that I'd like to not show up in my iphone but they're sent to my main account that I have linked to my iphone. Aside from just that email blast. I'd like to not have to go in and automatically delete or open then back out of all the emails that I've already read. And I dont want to delete them cause most of them I need.
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Got it, I did have to disable POP because my Gmail account in my apple mail was set up as a POP mail. I then had to create a new account with the same email address and it set itself up as an IMAP account. Was super easy. Now I have all sorts of folders for it too even. Only problem is, I cant rename the mailbox for some reason.
Anyone have any bright ideas on that? I want to rename the mailbox in my apple mail. Right now its just called "gmail"

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.
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