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Why is Thunderbird marking unread messages as read causing me to miss important emails?

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i'm using IMAP and emails from my server are being marked as read before I read them. The Gmail accounts within Thunderbird don't seem to have this problem. I thought it might be my phone so I deleted my accounts off my phone and still have the issue. Please advise.

i'm using IMAP and emails from my server are being marked as read before I read them. The Gmail accounts within Thunderbird don't seem to have this problem. I thought it might be my phone so I deleted my accounts off my phone and still have the issue. Please advise.

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Perhaps caused by an addon. You can check by starting Thunderbird in safe mode per https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/safe-mode

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Wayne Mery said

Perhaps caused by an addon. You can check by starting Thunderbird in safe mode per https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/safe-mode

No luck, still having the issue. Running Windows 7 64 bit

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Any help would be appreciated, gotta be a solution out there.

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newuser1 said

i'm using IMAP and emails from my server are being marked as read before I read them. The Gmail accounts within Thunderbird don't seem to have this problem. I thought it might be my phone so I deleted my accounts off my phone and still have the issue. Please advise.

You missed stating important information, namely what ISP for the non-gmail accounts.