Marking a conversation as Read or Unread Follow

Outpost will automatically mark all incoming conversations as Unread. When you open a conversation and view it, Outpost will mark the message as Read either immediately, after a delay of up to 5 seconds, or never, depending on the setting that is selected in the Preferences menu. You can manually change whether a message is marked as Read or Unread anytime you need.

Changing the period of time before a conversation is marked as read

1. Click on the Settings gear.
   
2. Click on Preferences.
   
3. Select the desired delay before a selected is marked as read.
   
4. Once the selection has been made, click on Save Changes.
   

Manually change the Read/Unread setting:

1. In the conversation toolbar, click Mark as Read or Mark as Unread:
   
   
2. Once a conversation is marked Unread, you'll see the sender's name and subject in bold in the sidebar: