Solved Auto mark email as read option
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@TigerShark Nearly everything I get has to be acted upon. My email is my business office. I can't spend all day marking things "important" or "to be done."
For my purposes, bold black is an automatic "Pending" stamp, and that works for me. I really don't care if it's called "Unread," "Special," "Don't overlook" or whatever. Just stay bold until I mark you "Done" (read).
For other users, "Become ignorable as soon as I click you open" may work better. For these, automarking Read on a timer or whatever will become available.
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Disappointing to see 1.0 release without this, as it seems to be the last dealbreaker for me.
Vivaldi mail can easily be configured to NOT do work out of the "Unread" filter, but to work out of the IMAP "Inbox" folder like any other mail client, by hiding/selecting the requisite mail pane entries in settings. The process of sorting mail into folders also works about like any other IMAP client, if the user chooses to organize their mail that way. Therefore, the default reliance of Vivaldi on the "Unread" filter is not relevant to this feature request. People who do work out of the "Unread" filter are free to not use this feature request, and people who do not should be free to have this feature request and enable the feature.
The "Unread" state is also not the same as "Unseen", because only Vivaldi understands "Unseen"; when you use different mail clients on different devices, only "Unread" propagates to non-Vivaldi clients. Therefore, the behavior of "Unseen" is also not relevant to this feature request; this request is for Vivaldi to implement a feature it does not have, the setting of specifically the "Read" state, not a similar functionality that already exists in "Seen".
I know Vivaldi has chosen to present a different type of mail workflow as its primary argument supporting Vivaldi mail and its featureset, and therefore features such as this, which go against Vivaldi's promoted mail paradigm and reinforce behaviors it tries to discourage, may seem to be low-priority or even actively undesirable. But the whole point of Vivaldi is user choice and customizability. Please allow me to manage my mail the way I want, which is the way I manage it in every other IMAP client I have ever used, including those I use concurrently with Vivaldi on the same mail account which do not understand Vivaldi's "Unseen" concept.
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@dominoa welcome to the forum.
To quote from earlier in this thread:
@gmg said in Auto mark email as read option:
But yes, this will be added. We of course want to add things for our users, especially if they're high on the feature request list.
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@Ayespy I envy your inbox then. Every one of my 5 email accounts (2 of which are managed by my employer) have a minimum of 40% spam.... T_T
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Please I want this feature. It's so annoying to see that highlighted number over the emails, telling you that you have unfinished business even though you've actually gone through the mail.
And then you have to find that little button to manually mark stuff as read, it's such a chore. This is a little deal breaker for me atm.
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I want to vote for this feature request too as It's very fundamental thing for using email client.
I hope the team response to this feedback by providing us an option soon
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Hi, I actually don't really understand the discussion here.
My mails in Vivaldi are displayed in blue as they come in.
Once I click on the mail its color changes to black and is therefore immediately and automatically "marked as opened". To me this in practical terms is equivalent to "marked as read".What Vivaldi doesn't seem to offer is an option to prolong the time (by x seconds) after which a mail is automatically being "marked as opened", i.e. performing a color change from blue to black. However, I don't really see much use for such a feature.
What might be helpful to some is to add an option to have a mail automatically "marked as read" (and therefore removed from the "unread" view) once it has been dealt with in some way (answered or forwarded). But to have it done automatically after x seconds does not make any sense to me (as it might vanish from view while reading it).
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Whether you call it 'read' or call it 'seen', my desired result is the same: I want it to become unbold so that I know I have looked at it.
Some people want it to auto-mark as read and some don't. That's why there should be an option for it in settings. I've just started using Vivaldi for email and this is going to be a deal breaker for me.
Secondarily I should be able to manually click the 'unseen/unread' dot in the first column to toggle it without having to memorize a keyboard command or go to a menu.
Finally: on many of my emails, I just click to look at it and see that I don't care and then delete it. The problem with that (without it automatically being marked as having seen/read it) is that if I later have to look at my account through Gmail's web interface, those items are still bold (labeled as unread) and makes me question whether I've seen them or not.
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I'm a power user but discovered Vivaldi only two days ago, now I can only see Chrome as a cheap toy compared to this.
Fell here googling this issue, I'm in the "don't understand how this isn't an option" group, thought I'd pile up to have this as an option, as it exists in all e-mail clients and I miss it badly.
Please and thank you.
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@nmaxcom
Hi, it's relatively easy, view a mail is not read it.
Kind of seeing an invoice does not mean that it has been paid.
I guess the feature would be implemented at some time but in the meantime simply use the shortcut K for make it read or G for make it read and jump to the next mail.
You can use Ctrl +A and K to get all mails read, no idea why some user have a problem.Cheers, mib
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The technical or workflow objections against this option are mostly irrelevant.
Keep the current workflow out of the box. Have an option that marks the message as seen AND read as soon as (or after some user defined seconds) it's clicked upon or made visible in the preview pane or message body window. As long as the message is still visible in any pane/window, the message header remains in Unread. Navigate away from the body at any time by any means and it then disappears from Unread. The counts for Unread could be adjusted in similar fashion (and you will only ever be off by one!)
Almost anything is achievable with some thought and some good programming!
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Just want to add my two cents: I've never run into an email client before which doesn't automatically mark a read email as read (sometimes even with a timer). I miss this function and can't wait to see it implemented soon.
This is not my dealbreaker for using the Vivaldi email client, though - for me it is the missing function to create mail-lists.
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Adding my vote, I find the feature quite useful, saves you a K key press.
Also it's rather annoying to have "unread" messages in trash. -
One more voice to this feature
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+1 for this feature, at least as an option
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cannot believe there is no option for this..
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i like it also, please make it
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+1 Pleaaase, for me it's useless without this feature. It could be ok if I get dayly one mail or so, but with more messages...necessary feature IMHO
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@Kosti
Hi, many user set a +1 but this does nothing.
Vote for it in the first post to get more user show up there.
Cheers, mib
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+1.
The core of Vivaldi is all about options. I totally get the reason for not automatically marking emails as read by default, but some (like myself and the 120 others who upvoted the first post) would like to use the mail client in a slightly different way. My personal use case is that I often use FairEmail (an incredibly wonderful and useful email client for Android) on my phone, so if emails aren't marked as read in Vivaldi, they'll still show up in my phone's notifications.
Thanks for listening!
