Rule to mark sent messages read

As some other people have noted in the forums, since I've upgraded to Leopard all my sent messages are getting marked as Unread for some reason I gave up trying to understand and/or fix.
So I was thinking of creating a rule to mark all sent messages as Read.
How could I accomplish that?

don't know if this would work but you could try in mail>preferences>rules: "date sent" "is less than" and choose "1", then perform the following... "mark as read".
rules are applied to incoming messages so that new rule would not automatically apply to your sent mailbox. you would have to go to your sent mailbox once in a while, then select the emails you would like the rule to be applied to, then go to the menu message>apply rules.
if you have more than one rule and do not want other rules applied to these sent messages, then before applying the rule, you would have to go to mail>preferences>rules and mark as inactive the other rules, leaving only the above one as active.
a bit tedious workaround i admit and maybe other users may have a more elegant solution.
hope this helps

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