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Good afternoon,

Does someone knows why emails open by themself? This is very irritating. I don't use a reading pane so this can't be the reason. We use Thunderbird at work so we receive daily 200 to 300 mails. Often mails open by themself so this way a lot of mails are already marked as read and I miss a lot of mails because of this. Is there a way to stop this?

Thank you for your help.

Good afternoon, Does someone knows why emails open by themself? This is very irritating. I don't use a reading pane so this can't be the reason. We use Thunderbird at work so we receive daily 200 to 300 mails. Often mails open by themself so this way a lot of mails are already marked as read and I miss a lot of mails because of this. Is there a way to stop this? Thank you for your help.

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Do you mean that messages appear marked as read before you open them? This can happen if an IMAP account is accessed on other devices, so a message read on one device is marked as read on other devices that access the same IMAP account.

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sfhowes said

Do you mean that messages appear marked as read before you open them? This can happen if an IMAP account is accessed on other devices, so a message read on one device is marked as read on other devices that access the same IMAP account.


Hi, no I mean it really opens the mail. Sometimes I have 10 mails opened when I never opened them. So a separate pop up of the mail appears. When I delete or classify a mail, it goes to the next mail and opens it by itself. But I don't always see it as we receive so many mails everyday so if 10 mails are opened I don't look at the mail if it is a mail I already treaded. Very frustrating. In the beginning it wasn't everyday but now it is constantly. I never work on another device as I only use Thunderbird for work.

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Is it possible that when you select a message with a single click, your mouse reacts as if it was a double click, and opens the message? If that's the case, what happens if you avoid using the mouse, and just select a message with the up or down key, then press Enter to open it? Most reports of this type end up being due to faulty hardware.