I often receive emails that I don’t need to open and move them directly to Trash. However, I find it distracting that the number of unread emails still appears beside the Trash folder. I’m looking for a way to automatically mark emails in Trash as "read" without doing it manually. Since Mail’s "Rules" feature doesn’t seem to support this, do you have any suggestions for a workaround using BTT?
Hi, I don't think that this is what I'm looking for. The rule in your screenshot seems to require a certain keyword, and then it automatically trashes the email when it delivers.
I'd like for emails that I manually send to Trash to be marked as read automatically. It doesn't seem like there's an option for this.
Could you please describe in more detail your current workflow?
Are you sure you're talking about the Trash folder and not the Junk folder?
How are you manually sending emails to Trash?
When an email arrives in my inbox, I have the option to delete it without opening it. If I have several unread emails in my inbox that I know I don’t need to read, I can simply put all of them in Trash. I was hoping that when I put them in Trash, there would be a way to not show an unread number next to the Trash folder.
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How are you doing that exactly?
What do you mean by "put" exactly? Selecting multiple emails and then drag and drop? A keyboard shortcut?
I've tried multiple different combinations and I'm not able to reproduce your issue. For me, however which way I move email(s) from my Inbox to the Trash, they always get marked as read.
Sorry for the super late reply—I was honestly overwhelmed by trying to explain this.
By swiping the unread email that is in my inbox to the left, there is an option to delete the email. But if the email is unread when I do this, it remains unread in my Trash folder, which I find annoying, since I don't need to see an "unread" number in my trash folder when I know it's trash anyway.
If you have an unread email in your inbox, and you do NOT open it, but you do put it in trash manually, it will still show as unread when in trash.
I empathize – it can be difficult and frustrating trying to communicate.
Ah! This is one combination of deleting an email that I didn't try. Strangely, when I try this method now, I still can't replicate your observed behavior – that is, when I swipe on an unread email, a red "Delete" button appears and when I click on it, the email gets moved to the Trash folder and is marked as "read".
I did some searching on Google and found several people posting the same or similar questions as you, so you're not the only one with this issue. I couldn't find a post with a straightforward answer, unfortunately. I don't know why on my mac the emails are getting marked as "read" – puzzling.
One idea I have is that this issue is related to the email server/provider e.g. iCloud, Microsoft's Outlook 365, Gmail, etc.
Could you tell me which email provider you're using?