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User profile for user: Zenodorus
Zenodorus Author
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Apple Mail

Hi,


Regret I cannot find a suitable topic that covers Apple Mail so have just selected Catalina.


I have just used import mailbox in Mail - excellent suggestion through Support Community - to pull in all my mbox folders containing emails created on a Windows PC. I am now showing around 2500 unread emails. There is a facility in Mail Mailbox which reads 'Mark all messages as Read'. Trouble is it is grayed out. It does not matter whether I start at the folder level or drill down to an individual email, it still remains grayed out. Is there a way I can mark all as read so that I can remove the 'new incoming emails' number from the Mail icon in the Dock ? Thanks

iMac 21.5" 4K, macOS 10.15

Posted on May 20, 2020 8:01 AM

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User profile for user: Barney-15E
Barney-15E
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Posted on May 20, 2020 8:32 AM

Select the Mailbox, select a Message, then Cmd-A to Select All.

Ctrl-click on selection and "Mark as Read"


I don't know why you are seeing that grayed out as long as at least one message in the mailbox is unread. If they are all unread, it will be grayed out.

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