With earlier versions than Sonoma Mail I have used a PlugIn called Mail Act-On from SmallCubed to delay my email read action, so I can go through my emails without having them all marked as read. A 5 second delay worked for me. With Sonoma PlugIns in Mail are no longer supported.
Does anybody know a trick or tool how to delay the mail read action?
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 14.0
I have avoided updating to Sonoma purely for this reason. Is there any explanation from Apple as to why there is no option to keep emails marked as unread when using the preview pane but not actually opening them? It makes no sense to me, and it's time-consuming to have to keep marking them as unread when you happen to scroll past them to get to one that you want to open first.
I have avoided updating to Sonoma purely for this reason. Is there any explanation from Apple as to why there is no option to keep emails marked as unread when using the preview pane but not actually opening them? It makes no sense to me, and it's time-consuming to have to keep marking them as unread when you happen to scroll past them to get to one that you want to open first.
Mail does support Extensions, but I don't know if there are any capable of doing that. There is nothing in the OS, trick or not, that will change that short of not showing the Preview Pane. In normal layout, you can set up to 5 lines of preview.
Set Mail Read Delay - Settings to manage when messages are marked as read
