Messages automatically marked as read in yahoo and unread in Mail

I typically use yahoo.com to view/read my yahoo mail, but I would like the option of viewing in Mail as well. However, when I launch my Mail account, all messages remain "unread" (whether I've read them or not in yahoo.com). And when I go to my yahoo.com account after opening Mail, all messages (whether I've read them or not in Mail) are automatically marked as "read". This is extremely frustrating as I would like both Mail and yahoo.com to reflect read and unread emails appropriately.
I do not have this problem when I use the Mail app on my iPhone.
Please help! Thank you!

UPDATE: In addition to all mail being marked as "unread" in yahoo.com, most messages older than a few days old are also deleted. They still appear in Mail, but I need to read them in yahoo.com as well. In addition, Mail does not contain the folders from yahoo.com, so all messages appear in Mail as one big "unread" mess in my inbox. Again, these issues are not a problem with the iPhone app. Thank you!

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UPDATE: In addition to all mail being marked as "unread" in yahoo.com, most messages older than a few days old are also deleted. They still appear in Mail, but I need to read them in yahoo.com as well. In addition, Mail does not contain the folders from yahoo.com, so all messages appear in Mail as one big "unread" mess in my inbox. Again, these issues are not a problem with the iPhone app. Thank you!

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hi,
i am able to read the messages from yahoo mail using pop3, but even new messages are marked as read once retrieved through client code.
How to leave new messages as unread?
Thanks in advance.
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As explained in the JavaMail FAQ, the POP3 protocol,
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I am using Mail in Mac OS X 10.5 with Gmail IMAP, and any email I receive that has a mail rule applied to it (such as, if person x emails me move email to this folder) is automatically marked as read (i.e., doesn't show up as a new message). Any email that comes into the Inbox, however, is marked as new.
The mail folder I am testing this with does not have the "mark email as read" rule applied to it, yet it keeps marking any email that goes through this rule as read. Also, no new mail sound plays after receiving these emails. In Tiger, even when an email was automatically marked as read by mail rules, it made the new mail sound.
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For me, it never counted it as new. It would just appear.
I deleted the Mail preference file and that seemed to fix some things, even though it did require me to re-setup Mail almost entirely. This morning, though, I got an email from my girlfriend that did not filter at all, even though the email address she sent from is in a rule. Might be an isolated incident, though.

Why are all emails automatically marked as read?

I recently switched my wifes email account from a POP to a IMAP. (same email address, same server, same provider)
Shortly before doing that we upgraded to Lion.
She also gets mail from this account on her iPhone.
Question: For some reason all of her new emails are automatically marked as read. No blue dots. This happens when a new message is recieved on either the Mac or on the iPhone. Everything else about the email account works properly. My email accounts on the same Mac work properly. (Same user account)
Any ideas what might be causing this? Is this problem being caused in the Mail problem or is it something on the server side?
Thanks.

UPDATE:
I have now deleted the account from the iphone. No change in the behavior. It's not the iphone that is causing this.
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Dear Apple,
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Let me clarify what I said across all the responses in this topic. If you are operating a PC with say Outlook Express or Windows Mail, and a Mac with Mail, and furthermore if both are able to download a message from a POP server, and on both computers it is marked as Unread, then reading the message on one of the computers will not cause it to then be marked as Read on the other, operating in POP.
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I do not want mail to change an email to read just because it was viewed or clicked upon.
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