"Brian Tillman" wrote:

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

Brian, I appreciate your reading and replying to my message but not sure why
as you seem irritated that I would want such a thing, that I would expect
that it's possible - and you simply reiterated the same information that
you'd posted before. I read it the first time and I really think there must
be a way to do it since the functionality is there in the Rules Engine - it's
just not available for sent messages. There's also an option for performing
a "custom action" but I've been unable to find out how you use that screen.
Surely, someone has but it doesn't seem to be documented anywhere that I can
find. If you don't have any ideas, it's ok - you don't have to repeat your
information. I'm just looking for answers that I bet someone out there has
figured out.
Trina