TrinaSJackson@ARC wrote:

I need this same feature. In order to use Conversations more
effectively, I have my Sent Items moved back to the InBox and that
works well, but I really would like the messages I create (new,
replies and forwards) to not to show up as Unread. There are all
kinds of articles explaining how this works and the "unread" status
is such an obvious followup, there just MUST be some way to do it.
Actually, in my opinion, it should never have be set to Unread anyway
since it's a reply

What makes you say there "must" be a way? If you use a rule to move an
outgoing message to a folder other than Sent Items, it WILL be marked as
unread with no way within the rules engine to do otherwise. You could
certainly write an add-in that accomplishes it, but there seems to be no way
within Outlook.
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Brian Tillman