In every other e-mail program that I have encountered in my years upon this Earth, including previous version of Evolution, when you open a message, the message in the main displays stops being displayed in bold, so that you can see it has been opened and read.

In my new version, 2.32.3, the message header stays bold, even once you have opened the message. In order to make it stop being bold, you have to manually "Mark As Read" in the context menu.

I cannot see any option in the preferences that needs to be switched on so that this (until now) default behaviour of marking read messages as Read automatically, can resume.

A Google of this problem just brings up messages on other forums, asking the same question but getting no answer. Has anyone on LinuxQuestions come across this Evolution feature before? Is this an Evolution bug, or is there a way of having opened messages Marked as Read automatically, which virtually every other e-mail application does anyway?!

Using Evolution 2.22.3.1 / Hardy Heron 8.04

Have a look into: Edit/Preferences/General

There should be a topic named "Message display".

Check the box with "Mark messages as read after ... seconds"

Ah, that does the trick. Thanks!

Hi,

An old thread, I know but I have exactly this issue. I'm finding the same - people complaining and a post indicating the decision was taken that this behavoir is now the default but I also want the old behavoir.

I have the same version of Evolution (are you using RHEL6 workstation?) but I'm using the Exchange EWS plugin and emails don't get marked as read regardless of being opened for any length of time or 'previewed' - they just stay unread until manually marked as read.

Are you using Evolution against Exchange?

Thanks,
Steve

Well, I don't use Evolution any more. But from what you say, could it be that if you are using Evolution, it does not download/delete the messages from the server, but they stay on there and so are never regarded as "Read" until you delete them?

My issue was solved with the other person's helpful reply (by changing a setting in Edit/Preferences/General). Have you tried that?

Thanks for the reply - I had indeed changed that setting but it didn't appear to give me the desired behaviour.

However, the issue appears to have resolved itself...somehow. I'm going to just accept it's working now and move on!

It may be worth noting that the version in RHEL7 seems a lot more stable and responsive.

Cheers,
Steve