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Why is my email marked as read, when I haven't opened it? All email should be in bold until they have been opened but mine switch to non-bold text by themselves. Also when opened sometimes they are not in HTML when they should be and links to websites do not work. If I log in to my email online they display fine and the links work.
MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
I didn't have the Mail->Preferences->Viewing "Mark all messages as read when opening a conversation" checked. So I guess that wasn't the problem.
I have checked "Display unread messages in a bold font" and "Display remote images in HTML messages" boxes and neither actually happens. I've tried unchecking them and shutting down the computer, then starting up again and checking them and shutting down again etc to no effect. I've done this several times over the last six months and the email account has never displayed the way it is meant to.
I have mail accounts for the MacBook Pro (which has OSX Mountain Lion 10.8.5) for my iPad3, my iPhone4 and an old MacBook which the kids use. It's only the MacBook Pro which has the problem. So I presume that the junk filtres used by my email provider is not causing the problem, as it is only one device that it happens.
I went onto my old MacBook (which is Snow Leopard) looking for an old email today and noticed that the email displayed properly and it made me realize how irritating it is that the email show as read when they are not. How confusing even.
I thought I found a fix...
Go to mail.google.com on a computer, then settings (the little gear icon in the top right) and click Accounts and Import. Toward the bottom is an area called "Grant access to your account:" and I didn't actually have any other accounts, but I changed the button from "Mark conversations as read when opened by others" to "Leave conversations unread when opened by others".
But no, it's still not working. :-(
Just makes me wonder how many email replies I never even noticed because they were already marked "read".
I Work at IT Help Desk and a customer had the same issue. Customer was using an outlook application on the MacBook that he had. I had to go online and change the settings in Outlook.com to not mark messages as read when selected. May be a temporary fix but it fixed the issue on the Outlook application.
For me, this was happening on a non-@me email address. Make sure ALL your devices have the account as IMAP, I left one as pop an old iPad I hardly ever use and that was causing this error. I deleted the account on the iPad and it solved my issue (you could just reset the account as IMAP).
Have you checked off Mail -> Preferences -> Viewing "Mark all messages as read when opening a conversation"?
Do you have your mail accounts configured with more than one system (e.g., a PC at work as well as your Mac)? For any of your email clients, do you have any automatic filters set up, such as junk filters (especially third-party filters)? Any automatic rules in any configured email client could result in this.
did you ever get this figured out? I'm having the same issue.
Same problem here too. Any solutions?
Same problem here.
E-mail marked as read when I haven't.
I started to get this problem when I set up Fetch every 15 minutes on my iPhone for mail accounts that don't use Push. I changed it back to Manual and the problem was fixed. This is not ideal but at least I don't miss any messages.
I was wrong the issue still persists change Fetch didn't fix the issue.
I also have this issue. The mail on my iPhone is automatically marked as read but only when Apple's Mail app is running on my Macbook. (Even though it is still marked as unread on the Macbook)
Both email clients are configured as pop clients on a Yahoo (sbcglobal) account and I've tried disabling all the rules I have, to no avail. I do use iCloud but not for email. I'm really not sure what mechanism is connecting the iPhone client and the Macbook but the effect is immediate. The moment the OS X app loads a message, the iPhone changes it's status to 'read.'
I've searched here and found many with the same issue but nobody with any answers.
I have eventually found a fix for this, turn off mail in iCloud, I am sure most people do not want to back up their mail to iCloud as the mail host will do that, solved the issue for me.
Hi Photodan24,
Did you every find a fix to this problem? It just started happening with my Mac Mail and Gmail.
-Payson
I had this problem with my iphone and yahoo mail.
On my iphone i deleted my yahoo mail account from the mail app.
Then added my yahoo mail account back.
That didn't work.
Then I remembered that I tried to install Outlook mail and the Yahoo mail app on my windows 10 pc. Those apps didn't really work like I wanted, I decided to remove those apps from my pc.
So far it's worked. The conflict must have been how one of those apps was downloading my mail.
Why is my email marked as read, when I haven't opened it?
