Mail automatically marks previewed messages as "read"

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When I select a message for preview in Mac email, either with a mouse click or with arrows, how do I prevent it from automatically changing to "Read" status. I don't want it to change until I actually open the message. This is very easy to do in Outlook - but can't figure it out on Mac...i am running El Capitan 10.11.6

did i say this is soon easy in outlook?? Help!

I have the same issue with http://christianserving.org. I, too posted a ticket on his site.

On that, I also posted this in apple support communities.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5471196

Hope that there is someone at Apple that will take a look at this to add the feature... No add-on needed....

Hands down one of my largest gripes with Mail. It would seem Mail and I have two different definitions of what "Read" means -- just because it automatically shows up in my preview pane after I delete the mail next to it doesn't mean I actually read it.

TruePreview was great while it lasted, but this really needs to be an optional setting built directly into Mail.

I'm also trying to solve that issue; judging from the responses, there is no way to prevent this from happening?

Well... It seem there is 2 guy`s in Montreal that developped an application that "address" this issue. However, the application is 25$... Which I find a little expensive...

You can find it here if interrested. www.indev.ca/MailActOn.html

However, since there is nothing else (that I did find) out there, I might be stuck paying for it...

It is ******* me off from 2 points of view...

First, This shoud be a feature built-in by Apple withing Mail.... I mean ! Common ! This is basic stuff !

Second, the attitude of truepreview... At least, if he`s tired to play with mail, just say so... Stop accepting the money. If he`s just dead, well... Sorry for the family then...😝

Apple is only making softwaare for dummy's, not people that know and use computers extensively. Automatic marking mail as read robs from real users the opportunity to use Mail as a simple task mamager (using Reminders, Notifications, and Calendar, all separate apps is a non-starter).

I'm looking for a reasonable replacementand maybe going back to Entourage...

This has always been a pet peeve of mine on the iPad mail.app. Same for the Mavericks mail.app. If anybody has a good solution I'd love to hear it.

Downloaded the trial application and it works very well so far. There is additional functionality on rules and shortcuts that to me justifies the $25. That to me is a good solution.