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.

"Mike" <toocool@newsgroup-spam-tin.it> wrote in message
news:70D3CE03-8B83-420C-849C-AB7B97A276F9@newsgroup

>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.
>

Set it to 0 (zero) seconds.

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Regards Steve.
MS-MVP. MAIL. [DTS] UK.
http://www.getsafeonline.org/

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 doesn't count.

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Mike - http://TechHelp.Santovec.us



"Mike" <toocool@newsgroup-spam-tin.it> wrote in message
news:70D3CE03-8B83-420C-849C-AB7B97A276F9@newsgroup

> 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.
>

The message texts has been displayed in the Reading Pane. I hardly ever open a message in
its own window.


"Michael Santovec" <michael_santovec@newsgroup> wrote in message
news:OrI3O0vlKHA.2780@newsgroup

> 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 doesn't count.
>
> --
>
> Mike - http://TechHelp.Santovec.us
>
>
>
> "Mike" <toocool@newsgroup-spam-tin.it> wrote in message
> news:70D3CE03-8B83-420C-849C-AB7B97A276F9@newsgroup

>> 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.
>>

>

"Mike" <toocool@newsgroup-spam-tin.it> wrote in message
news:509093F0-C0B1-4550-8EE6-840CB1D777AA@newsgroup

> The message texts has been displayed in the Reading Pane. I hardly ever
> open a message in its own window.

Did you see my previous reply?

Set it to 0 (zero) seconds.

Also have you recently messed about with the Windows font/icon settings?


--
Regards Steve.
MS-MVP. MAIL. [DTS] UK.
http://www.getsafeonline.org/

"Mike" <toocool@newsgroup-spam-tin.it> wrote in message news:70D3CE03-8B83-420C-849C-AB7B97A276F9@newsgroup

> I have set all incoming messages to be marked as "read" after 10 seconds.
> This does not happen, even if they are highlighted.

> Why ?

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.

> Any quick fixes ?

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'm pretty sure this wasn't 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 isn't retained; it's any markings I make,
on new messages such as Watch Conversation and Flag.
In fact, I guess I can't 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.

> thanks.

Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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