[Users] Marking messages as read

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On Sat, 12 Apr 2014 09:00:53 +0100
Neil <senex at drofle.co.uk> wrote:

> However, if I have several new messages in a
> particular folder I click on the first one to read it and then I use
> the keyboard shortcut Shift-N to move on to the next unread one until
> I am told there are no more unread ones in that folder.
> 
> And here is the query, if I go through the unread messages using this
> keyboard shortcut the messages, after the first one, do not get marked
> as read and the number of unread messages is not reduced. I am
> guessing that this is because I am still using the same window while
> working my way through them.
> 
> Is there any way round this please? 

I think you need to click the radio button at

Configuration » Preferences » Display » Summaries » Mark message as read
    (x) when selected