Sent mail is marked as 'unread'

This just started happening a few days ago. No settings have been changed, nothing is different in how or where mail is stored. About 1/2 of the mail I send now appears as 'unread' in the Sent mail folder in Mail.
Why? How can I make this stop? I rely on the red badge over Mail in the dock to let me know there is mail to check, now I constantly have to open Mail, select Sent, click on my own messages and then return to Inbox to clear badges. Annoying, really annoying...
Anybody know anything about this or why it's suddenly happening?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Bryan

I am using a rule to deal with this problem (first select all sent messages and mark as read, the rule will then work on new messages):
If all the following conditions are met:
Date Sent Is Less Than 1 days old
From Contains youremailaddresss
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