Not sure about your scenario as we are talking about received messages
that
haven't been sent? :-S
Anyway; you can change the way messages are being marked as read in;
Tools-> Options-> tab Other-> button Reading Pane
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Have set up a shared e-mail address. Can an e-mail message be kept marked
as
unread until it has been sent.(even though a number of people will open
the
message)