291344 - Marks messages as read

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Gordon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: V 1.0.2

I am sorry to post this here, but I couldn't find a contact address to suggest 
improvments.

I find it incredible important that my email client doesn't automatically mark 
new messages as "read", because I only mark messages as read if I have finished 
working on them.

Thunderbird is amazingly good, but please add this option (to not mark messages 
automatically) as soon as possible. Thanks a million.

Kr
G.


Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of/related to Bug 234121?

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

TB marks messages read when they've been, y'know, read: opening them into a 
standalone window, or "previewing" them in the message pane.  That latter point 
can be controlled by not using the message pane (hide it, under the View menu) 
or by setting a delay so it doesn't get marked immediately -- you can make the 
delay pretty long, but not indefinite: bug 234121 comment 23.  (Set the 
preference under the Advanced options page.)

If you were unaware of this pref, and its behavior is sufficient for you, then 
please mark this bug:   Resolved | Invalid

If you are looking to have TB absolutely never mark the message read until you 
explicitly say so, change this bug's severity to Enhancement -- and I'm afraid 
it will get, at best, WontFix'd (at worst, never paid any attention to again).

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

No response from reporter => Invalid