Unread mail on yahoo server after downloading into apple mail

If I am downloading my yahoo mail into my iPad is there a way I can set it so that when I later look at yahoo mail through their web interface so that that mail still shows as unread? Right now when I download my mail into apple mail all the yahoo mail which is still on the server shows as "read", but in fact I have not read the big majority of the mail on the yahoo server so I don't want to show it as "read".
Preferably I would show all the mail on the yahoo server as "unread" unless I really had read it already from the Yahoo server side. The reason is that many times I can use the apple mail but sometimes I have to use the yahoo mail interface and I need to be able to tell which Yahoo mail I really read already or not.
Thanks,
Chet Shannon

Chet,
Welcome to the Discussions.
Have you set the account up as IMAP or POP? Yahoo, which I believe was once only POP service, implemented IMAP. If truly IMAP, then messages on the server should only be marked as Read when they have been opened and read on some computer or other device.
If POP, then the normal POP server would not mark them as Read simply because they have been downloaded, but I think Gmail POP did this (haven't accessed my Gmail as POP in a long time, however).
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