Care to explain yourself a bit more?
If you download it from Exchange to a mobile client which marks the messages
as read, how would you want Outlook to solve that? Outlook is not even
touching those items then.

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"Ronan" wrote in message
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Hi all, Can anyone tell me if there is a setting in outlook 2003 which
prevents outlook from marking mail as "read" after it has been downloaded
from exchange server to a Mobile Imap Client?

Ronan.