(In reply to comment #21)
> If this is an option, that is OK. It is a nuisance to have to close another
> message when I don't want to. It is even worse when the next message is for my
> wife, and I then have to mark it as not read. We use only one e-mail address
> and still see no reason to have another. Even if the next message is new and
> for me, I want the option of leaving it as is until I am ready to look at it.
Note that there is an option (under Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Reading & Display) to leave messages previewed in the message pane marked unread; this might be useful for most of the use case of this bug, though if someone dislikes using the preview pane, it wouldn't help anything.
(In reply to comment #21)
> If this is an option, that is OK. It is a nuisance to have to close another
> message when I don't want to. It is even worse when the next message is for my
> wife, and I then have to mark it as not read. We use only one e-mail address
> and still see no reason to have another. Even if the next message is new and
> for me, I want the option of leaving it as is until I am ready to look at it.
Note that there is an option (under Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Reading & Display) to leave messages previewed in the message pane marked unread; this might be useful for most of the use case of this bug, though if someone dislikes using the preview pane, it wouldn't help anything.