Messages not being marked as Read on IMAP account on iMac

I use the Mail application on my iMac to read my Gmail. I have it set up as IMAP, and it has worked very well for a long time. Recently, however, I noticed that if I read my mail on my iPhone, or my work computer (both of which have the correct IMAP settings), the messages are not being marked as Read (unbolded) on my iMac. I have to quit and restart Mail for the messages to be unbolded.
Not a big issue, but I wonder why it is happeneing, and how to correct it?

I'm getting this too. Switching to a different folder and back gets rid of the blue dot. This only happens with my exchange account. All other accounts work normally.

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I have all my devices tied into icloud. When I read a message in Mail on any of my devices it used to be marked as read on the others. It has stopped doing this. Any idea how to fix this?

I'm getting this too. Switching to a different folder and back gets rid of the blue dot. This only happens with my exchange account. All other accounts work normally.

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I'm getting this too. Switching to a different folder and back gets rid of the blue dot. This only happens with my exchange account. All other accounts work normally.

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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.
But if the server makes the assumption that the first computer to download a message from it means that it is also then Read, then of course taking away one of the computers will alter things. This is what I said in:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10506769#10506769
If you can disprove this, then lay out your facts in detail, but don't mix looking at the server with Firefox on one computer, and Mail on still another. Firefox is not an email client, but a browser. Using Thunderbird on the PC, and Mail on the Mac would be an equivalent test.
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I've had an iPhone, iPad, and Mac for several years and just recently noticed that my unread messages on my Mac are increasing. I don't use the Mac much since I use the iPhone or iPad more often. The number of unread message across my iPhone and iPad are always in sync, but not my Mac. I have two Gmail accounts - Main and Spam. The Spam account seems to sync - there are currently 22 unread messages across all devices. But the Main account doesn't sync from iPhone/iPad to Mac. I have 64 unread messages on iPhone/iPad but it's 207 on the Mac. How do I make messages that I've read on my iPhone/iPad show as read on my Mac? I got the iPhone 5 last year, but I think this is a relatively new development.

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I've got an ongoing problem where when I read email on one device, it is still marked as unread on my other devices. To get another device to mark the email as read, I must open the mail app (as the foreground application, not just running in the background), and go to the inbox. Then, after about 20 seconds of waiting, it will mark the emails that I've previously read on another device as read.
I have a MacBook Pro, an iPhone, and an iPad, and it is tedious and irritating and confusing to always have these phantom new messages showing on every device, which turn out to be the emails that I've read elsewhere many hours prior.
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Imap wasn't designed for this kind of multi user situation. It assumes that you the account owner will be using it to manage one account via multiple devices. So once you have read a message it has been read, regardless of which device you were using at the time.
You appear to be describing a situation where you want more than one user to read each message, without anyone knowing if anyone else has read it or even dealt with it. Frankly, I can't imagine a set of circumstances where this workflow would make sense or be useful.
You can do various things such as manually setting messages as unread, or moving them from one folder to another to indicate that they have been processed, but much of this relies on users being thorough and conscientious.
You may need to be running your own server to do this sort of email message managing, if you really need to fork a message so it gets to multiple recipients. Managing which users see a particular message is a job for a server, not the end-user's email client.

All emails into my inbox are being marked as read whether they are or not.

All emails coming into my email inbox are instantly being marked as read. This is happening whether or not they have been opened in the reading pane, and is also happening on a colleagues computer as well.
Any suggestions as to why this may be happening?
It seems to have only started opening in the last week or two and I have not changed any settings in the mean time.

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.
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