Outlook email

[Sally]

I lost my hard drive and had to have a new one installed
and in the process, aside from losing more than I wanted
to -- I've learned to back up more frequently -- I can no
longer find how to set up the email so that after a
preset number of seconds the message shows as read. It
stays in an unread state until I manually switch to
another email. I've gone into settings etc. and can't
even find an option that covers this.

Thanks.

[Ron Uzenoff]

From the Outlook Express menu:

Tools | Options | Read | (first item use the spinner or type in the delay
time manually)

Ron


"Sally" > wrote in message
...
> I lost my hard drive and had to have a new one installed
> and in the process, aside from losing more than I wanted
> to -- I've learned to back up more frequently -- I can no
> longer find how to set up the email so that after a
> preset number of seconds the message shows as read. It
> stays in an unread state until I manually switch to
> another email. I've gone into settings etc. and can't
> even find an option that covers this.
>
> Thanks.

[Barry Guyer]

On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 10:09:11 -0800, "Sally" >
wrote:

>I lost my hard drive and had to have a new one installed
>and in the process, aside from losing more than I wanted
>to -- I've learned to back up more frequently -- I can no
>longer find how to set up the email so that after a
>preset number of seconds the message shows as read. It
>stays in an unread state until I manually switch to
>another email. I've gone into settings etc. and can't
>even find an option that covers this.
>
>Thanks.
For Outlook (as opposed to Outlook Express) go to

Tools > Options > Other > Preview Pane

and set the timing delay