Big Dan
EQ Forum Moderator
Hello,
All mail programs have read and unread messages. For the most part what's read/unread is marked by how long you have previewed the message. By default Thunderbird's mark as read timeout (the time it takes to mark a message as read) is one second. That's too short for me.
To change this select Tools > Options, in the options window click on the advanced section and tick wait .. seconds before marking a message as read. Place the number of second you want to wait until a message is marked as read, I chose 10.
![tb-markasread.JPG tb-markasread.JPG](https://www.emailquestions.com/data/attachments/0/212-d137b4c8791dfa4450b2f71964209e32.jpg)
All mail programs have read and unread messages. For the most part what's read/unread is marked by how long you have previewed the message. By default Thunderbird's mark as read timeout (the time it takes to mark a message as read) is one second. That's too short for me.
To change this select Tools > Options, in the options window click on the advanced section and tick wait .. seconds before marking a message as read. Place the number of second you want to wait until a message is marked as read, I chose 10.
![tb-markasread.JPG tb-markasread.JPG](https://www.emailquestions.com/data/attachments/0/212-d137b4c8791dfa4450b2f71964209e32.jpg)