Windows Mail Application in Vista Business

[John E. Golden]

I've just upgraded from Windows XP Professional to Windows Vista Business.

I'm trying to use the bundled Windows Mail Application as my Newsgroup
Reader. However, one thing that disturbs me is that every time I open up
one of my newsgroups,while it is downloading the Next Headers for posts, it
almost always marks one of the posts that I have not yet read as read. How
can I stop this so that I really know what posts I've read and which ones
I've not read?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
John E. Golden

 

[DP]

Under Tools>Options>Read, lengthen the amount of time before WM marks a
message as read.
I assume the post it is marking as Read is the one that is highlighted (and,
if you're using preview, it's the one that is being previewed in the bottom
pane).

That's the only explanation I can think of. The message is being highlighted
long enough for WM to consider it as having been "read."

Maybe someone else sees a different problem/solution here.

 

[John E. Golden]

Actually, I don't want to lengthen the amount of time before WM marks a
message as read...I just want it not to try to read any messages until I
tell it to.