Windows 10: Change How to Automatically Mark Item as Read in Windows 10 Mail app

How to: Change How to Automatically Mark Item as Read in Windows 10 Mail app

Change How to Automatically Mark Item as Read in Windows 10 Mail app


The Mail and Calendar apps included with Windows 10 help you stay up to date on your email, manage your schedule and stay in touch with people you care about the most. Designed for both work and home, these apps help you communicate quickly and focus on whats important across all your accounts. Supports Office 365, Exchange, Outlook.com, Gmail, Yahoo! and other popular accounts.

While reading your messages in the Mail app, you can select to automatically mark an item as read when selection changes or when viewed in the reading pane after waiting a specified amount of seconds. If you like, you can also select to not automatically mark an item as read.

This tutorial will show you how to change how you want to automatically mark an item as read in the Mail app for your account in Windows 10.



Here's How:

1. Open the Mail app.

2. Click/tap on the Settings icon at the bottom left, and click/tap on Reading pane in the Settings flyout. (see screenshot below)



3. In the Reading pane flyout under Mark item as read, select (dot) When selection changes, Don't automatically mark item as read, or When viewed in the reading pane for when you want. (see screenshot below)

*note If you selected When viewed in the reading pane for when you want, then you will also need to specify how many Seconds to wait before automatically mark item as read.




That's it,
Shawn


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W10 Mail app not marking mail as read

I am running Windows 10 and am getting fond of it. I have a problem with the Mail app. It is using my gmail account and everything works pretty well except that it is not marking items as read automatically. I can manually mark them, but the options on
the Settings/Reading/Mark item as read do not seem to have any effect. Any ideas on what to do?

Thanks.

 

Mail app will not open on 10041.


Hello Adam,

This is the suggested solution below if you haven't already tried it.

In this Windows 10 build 10041, the Mail, Calendar, and People apps may be broken due to a licensing issue with the Store Beta. To get these apps working again, you need to follow these steps:

• Open powershell as administrator
• Run the command Get-appxprovisionedpackage –online | where-object {$_.packagename –like “*windowscommunicationsapps*”} | remove-appxprovisionedpackage –online
• Re-install Mail, People and Calendar from the Store (green tile)

 

Windows 10 mail automatically downloads images

Hello,

I understand that the images are automatically downloaded in Windows Mail. We will help you.

I suggest you to follow the below steps and check if the issue resolves.

• Open Windows Mail App.
• Click on the Gear Icon/ Settings on the left bottom.
• Select Reading in the right corner.
• Turn Off Automatically download external images and Style Fonts.
• Restart the Application and check if the issue resolves.

Please post to us with more information to help you better.

 

Windows Mail app images not downloaded automatically

Hi Mak,

Sorry for the delay in response. Are you still facing the issue?

As per the description above I would suggest you to follow the steps below and Change Mailbox sync settings from the mail app and check if its working fine.

• 
  Open Mail App and click on the Settings icon.
  
• 
  Now, click on Account and then select your account.
  
• 
  Click on Change Mailbox Sync Settings.
  
• 
  Click onDownload New Contents
  and selectAs item arrives.
  

Hope it helps.

 

How-To Mark All as Read in Windows 10 Mail?

OK, I remember from olden days!

To select the entire inbox as read:-

1. Choose the option to to look at all unread messages.

2. Highlight the first message and select.

3. Scroll to end of unread list.

4. Shift and click on last message.

5. Right click anywhere within the selected list.

6. Choose and click on Mark As Read.

Bingo all 3500 messages disappear.