Agree, I do the same thing, will read through 10 or so emails and then have to go back and mark as not read so i know i still have to deal with it later, and answer the most critical ones first

This feature is so important. So many people work backwards when using email. There should be an option that doesn't automatically mark messages as read when the preview pane is on and you go to another email message. Some people just like to skim the message and come back to that email message later. You could also make it so that it reads the message only when you open the message in a new window or popup. As a hosting company who is considering purchasing the product, this is an important feature I would think came out of the box. The fact that it is not there makes me question how many customers/users are going to be upset about this from an end-user perspective. Hope this is resolved soon.

Just an idea to consider -- you could click the 'flag' icon to mark messages that you want to deal with later.

 

SmarterMail could enhance webmail to filter or sort on flagged messages.

Hi Rares,

 

Thank you for the suggestion. I can see how some would be benefit from a manual "Mark as Read" option. I'm going to change this thread from a Problem to an Idea in order to facilitate tracking on this request. 

 

Thanks!

Hello all,

 

I was able to install SmarterMail 9 and I can confirm that the "enable automatic mark as read for previewed messages" did exist in this version.  After enabling/disabling this setting and trying out different testing scenarios it looks like the setting allows a user to preview their top most email without having it tagged as "read".  However, it will be marked as "read" if the user clicks on the email.  The same thing will happen if the user has more than one unread email and they click on each individual message, SmarterMail 9 will tag them as read.

 

If this is the desired functionality then I do believe it's possible to get this back into a newer version of SmarterMail without too much effort on our part.  Aaron did describe an improvement on this setting, which I think would enhance it nicely from it's current implementation in SmarterMail 9.

 

What do you think?  Would it be nice to bring back the functionality from SmarterMail 9?  How about Aaron's suggestion, "You could also make it so that it reads the message only when you open the message in a new window or popup"?

Excellent discussions from everybody.  I went ahead and added the original functionality from SmarterMail9 and it should be part of our next minor build for SmarterMail15.

 

I can take the other ideas and present them to the team as possible feature updates for future releases.  In regards to the "active vs waiting" statuses can we use kevind's suggestion and use the flag as an option?  Another idea is to move certain emails into properly labeled folders, so maybe have an active folder and a waiting folder or even a previewed folder.  I totally understand both options are not automatic and moving emails to different folders on mobile can be far too many taps and swipes but these might be somewhat feasible options for the time being.  What does everybody think?

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