Mark unread email as "read"

Hi there,
I am using the email functionality of my iphone quite extensively. But I cannot find a function to mark unread email as being read. Since I using mail on my phone and my laptop I dont want to go through 40 mails a day on my iphone in order for the mail to be taken off my unread mails list. Otherwise the unread mails number count on top of the mail icon in the main menu becomes quite useless.
Any advice?
Thx
Max

Similar problem here. The number of unread email messages in the little red circle does not change after I read my emails. The only way I can get it to correctly reflect the number of unread messages is to force quit the email program. While in the email app, press the home button for about 10 seconds and let go. It will quit the email app and put you back at home. The unread message count will be accurate. I'm sure Apple will address this on their next update.

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In the preinstalled email application, you need to long press one email to mark it. When an email is marked, you can either press the emails you want to mark as read or you can press in the top left corner to mark all your emails. You can then press the "Mark as read/unread" button in the top right corner.
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