Windows 7 - Message remains marked as unread
Asked By Mike
16-Jan-10 07:06 AM
I have set all incoming messages to be marked as "read" after 10 seconds. This does not
happen, even if they are highlighted. Why ? Any quick fixes ?
thanks.
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mac replied to Mike
Set it to 0 (zero) seconds.
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Regards Steve.
MS-MVP. MAIL. [DTS] UK.
http://www.getsafeonline.org/
Michael Santovec replied to Mike
Has the message text been displayed in the Reading Pane or the message
double clicked to open in its own window? The time starts after the
message text is displayed. Merely highlighting a message does not count.
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Mike - http://TechHelp.Santovec.us
Mike replied to Michael Santovec
The message texts has been displayed in the Reading Pane. I hardly ever open a message in
its own window.
mac replied to Mike
Did you see my previous reply?
Set it to 0 (zero) seconds.
Also have you recently messed about with the Windows font/icon settings?
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Regards Steve.
MS-MVP. MAIL. [DTS] UK.
http://www.getsafeonline.org/
Robert Aldwinckle replied to Mike
Good question. It happens to me too and I mostly read
messages in a single message window--e.g. using a Next
or Next Unread button to see others in the same window.
When it happens I take it as a cue to do a compaction.
Another thing I have tried is making sure the wlmail.exe
task is idle for I/O before closing it. Using Task Manager
or Process Explorer you may see a remarkable amount
of I/O activity happening before closing the final window
and even before responding to the compaction prompt.
The symptom looks to me as if the Message Store is not
always being written completely, so waiting for all pending
I/O to be done instead of leaving it to the tender mercies
of termination processing seems a prudent thing to do.
Usually it happens in the last newsgroup that I have done
reads in, so normally not this one. However, today it is
happening in here too and I am pretty sure this was not the last
newsgroup I read from when I read the messages which
I now see are still unmarked. BTW it is not just the mark
Read indicator which is not retained; it is any markings I make,
on new messages such as Watch Conversation and Flag.
In fact, I guess I cannot even categorize the problem as being
associated only with "new" messages either because I have
had a few instances of "Groundhog day" with some messages
no matter what I did with them: Watch or Flag or both they
would still come back marked as if I had never seen them.
Good luck
Robert Aldwinckle
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