Mail messages immediately read

Hi there,
I decided to give Mail a try. Seems OK, but when a message is selected, even in passing, it immediately becomes 'read' - without any delay.
So if I use the mouse to select any message, then use the keyboard to scroll through to another message, all the unread mail between the two becomes read. Not exactly helpful.
How can I change this behaviour?
M
thanks
Sean

Hi Sean,
From your post I see that when you're selecting messages using the arrows on the keyboard the messages are being marked as read, and you want to be able to scroll without selecting the messages. While the action of marking a message as read after selecting cannot be changed, you can scroll using the scrolling gesture on the trackpad of your MacBook Pro, or use the scroll bars on the side of the column. That way you can avoid marking each email as read when scrolling through.
Mac notebooks: Two finger trackpad scrolling - Apple Support
Take care,
Alex H.

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