This quick tip can help you get rid of one of Outlook’s annoying features, and make it work like you want it to. Outlook is a great email client, but like most programs, it has its quirks. Check whether 'Leave email in the inbox' is selected instead of 'Move email to Anti-Spam folder' under Email Processing (Anti Spam settings).Please change to Move email to Anti-Spam folder and check the status. Now your messages will be marked as read as soon as you select them in the reading pane, or soon after, depending on how many seconds you told Outlook to wait before marking the item as read. In this article, I will introduce the solution to stop Outlook from automatically marking email as Read when you clicking them. Please let us know which email client that you are using Thunderbird or Outlook. Click “OK” to accept your changes and close the dialog box.Ĭlick “OK” on the Options dialog box. Only one of those two check boxes can be selected at once. Note that the “Mark item as read when selection changes” box is automatically unchecked when you check the “Mark items as read when viewed in the Reading Pane” box. We entered 0 (zero) in the “Wait X seconds before marking item as read” box so our messages would be marked as read as soon as we select them. In WebMail, 70 of emails marked as read in Outlook 2016. Marking emails as read - most of the times they stay read in Outlook 2016, but the read status is not synced back to SM. By default, Outlook will only mark a message read after you’ve been reading it for 5 seconds, though you can change this. The issues we are seeing with the latest SM 14 + Outlook 2016 synced via EAS: - Marking emails as read - sometimes they go back to being unread after 1 sec or so. In the Outlook panes section, click the “Reading Pane” button.Ĭheck the “Mark items as read when viewed in the Reading Pane” box to make Outlook mark your messages as read when you view them in the Reading Pane.