Unread Mail marked as "Read"

We have multiple mail accounts set up on multiple devices (using 10.9.2). Some of us receive the same email from a sender. When one of us reads the email, it is marking the email as "read" in all the accounts when only read in one. Fix? This just started with the most recent update. Any ideas on why this is happening and a fix for it?

I have had the same issue with my Microsoft exchange email after upgrading to Lion. It's a bit annoying. My iPad, Android Phone, and viewing it using a browser all show 0 unread, but Mail shows 3 unread. I have tried deleting the account, rebuilding, and pawing through settings looking for something I missed. Nothing. I actually had the same problem with my MobileMe email with Snow Leopard but I eventually permanently removed the account as other problems arose and just used it in my browser.
Sorry I couldn't help but I hope it's resolved.
John

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http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

Thanks, CT, but I really want Mail to NEVER mark anything as read automatically because I often open a message and skim it to assess its urgency, then leave it for later. Your suggestion would at least mean that a message isn't marked read just because the cursor happened to land on it, but what a nuisance to have to turn off the preview pane and do all that extra clicking when all I need is for Apple to think for five seconds about how people actually work, and to understand that we need to control our own activities, not have some anonymous coder make those decisions for us based on ... what? No research, no analysis, no thinking - just the first notion that came into his or her head. Sorry to rant - it really does cause me genuine stress.
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You can access a Gmail account as a POP account, as an IMAP account, or as an Exchange account.
If you are accessing your Gmail account as an IMAP account or as an Exchange account with the email client on your computer and with the iPhone's Mail client, when a message is marked as read with the email client on your computer the message should be marked as read when checking the account's Inbox mailbox with the iPhone's Mail client.
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This might be way off base because I do not have a really good understanding of email systems, but look at these:
1. When you Sync your iPhone, under the "Info" tab in iTunes, do you have it set to sync your email settings? If this is not checked, your iPhone and computer Mail settings could be different and Mail could think you read a message on your iPhone when you haven't.
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Im sure more knowledgeable members will chime in here, but I would say the issue is in ios 6.0 here. The way to test would be if users on previous verison of ios have the same issue. There are various discussions on apples forums regarding ios 6.0 and activesync/
exchange. Myself personally I have not updated to ios 6.0 and im still using 5.1.1 and Ive not had any exchange/activesync issues. Being a windows user you tend to hold off on major updates / SP releases until the rest of the masses have discovered the flaws.
Likewise i cant say im keen to jump to ios 6.0 just yet.
Good read here :
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19651119#19651119
Out of interest what happens if you read the email/delete it from the phone ? does it show as being read within Microsoft Outlook ?

When I open my mail app it shows that I have unread mail, so I click mark all read and carry on my business. About 2 seconds later all the mail I just marked comes back unread. This keeps happening, what can I do?

Everytime I get a new email, I open the mail app and mark it as read. Recently, whenever I receive emails I mark them all read yet 2 seconds later they are all marked unread. I again mark them all read and the same thing happens. I now have 95 emails from 2 weeks ago that I clearly marked read but they won't stay read. What can I do?

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Is it possible to flag e-mails and/or right click an e-mail to mark as read/unread, etc. when using Microsoft Outlook Web Access in Firefox on a Mac?

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== I've never been able to figure out how to do those things in Firefox.

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I tried both, but neither has worked.
a) Rebuilding the mailbox revealed another unread mail that actually existed, but didn't remove the 'phantom'.
b) The SM trick uncovered lots of unread news items from Apple, but not the 'phantom'.
Thanks for your help, but I might need to do something more drastic like deleting the account and adding it again.
Thanks, Jon.

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