I have a folder structure system based on a folder for each person and have
created a rule that moves any email from them from the inbox to their folder.
However I also want to see all my recent emails in a sequential incoming
order - viewing unread is a bit hazardous because if I read it, do something
else, come back its then gone.

So I've created a rule that copies each email to a Recents folder. Alas now
my UnRead folder shows 2 emails for each. Have tried to mark the email as
Read when it does the copy but no success. How can I write a rule to mark
all as Read on a particular folder?

Is there an alternative approach ?

thanks
-peter

Don't use a rule to copy the mails; Search Folders are designed to remove
the need for dupliacting your mails. You can create a Search Folder that
will list all the mails received in a certain timeframe (today, yesterday,
this week, last week, etc...)

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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
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"Peter" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have a folder structure system based on a folder for each person and have
> created a rule that moves any email from them from the inbox to their
> folder.
> However I also want to see all my recent emails in a sequential incoming
> order - viewing unread is a bit hazardous because if I read it, do
> something
> else, come back its then gone.
>
> So I've created a rule that copies each email to a Recents folder. Alas
> now
> my UnRead folder shows 2 emails for each. Have tried to mark the email as
> Read when it does the copy but no success. How can I write a rule to mark
> all as Read on a particular folder?
>
> Is there an alternative approach ?
>
> thanks
> -peter