Preview without marking as read

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Tom Cole Author

Level 1

6 points

Preview without marking as read

Is there a way to preview an e-mail message in the preview pane without marking the message as read?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.4), Mail 4.3

Posted on Sep 29, 2010 7:17 AM

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Answer 1

OhBee

Level 1

8 points

Sep 29, 2010 9:03 AM in response to Tom Cole

This has been making me crazy. I haven't found an Apple OS workaround (other than turning off preview pane), but i found this plugin (open source): http://www.christianserving.org/project/truepreview . It provides switches for customizing the 'read' behavior. Seems to work nicely.

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Answer 2

coolbob1

Level 1

15 points

Sep 30, 2010 10:44 PM in response to Tom Cole

Just go to (menu), (message), (mark), (as unread)
Or, if you do this frequently, customize toolbar, & drag the unread button to the toolbar, & click it at need...

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Answer 3

OhBee

Level 1

8 points

Oct 1, 2010 6:13 AM in response to OhBee

UPDATE. Alas, i had to remove this 3d-party plugin because it was causing some errors with mailbox functioning. So, the problem is still unresolved, in my opinion!

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Answer 4

Tom Cole Author

Level 1

6 points

Oct 1, 2010 6:34 AM in response to OhBee

Really? I had installed it and was happy that it seemed to work just fine and solved the issue. I haven't noticed any resulting errors -- can I ask what kind of problems it caused so that I can look out for them?

Thanks for the idea and the follow-up.

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Answer 5

Tom Cole Author

Level 1

6 points

Oct 1, 2010 6:35 AM in response to coolbob1

I was aware that you could re-mark messages as unread, but that's kind of a hassle in my opinion and requires redoing it every time you might click on a message. But thanks for the response.

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