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I have an Outlook 2007 rule which copies certain outgoing messages to another folder -- how do I automatically mark these messages as "read"?

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The messages are successfully copied to the other folder, but show up as unread. "Mark as read" does show up as a filter option in the action list when creating a rule that applies to incoming messages, but I don't see it when creating a rule applying to OUTGOING messages. How can I accomplish this…

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Apply this rule after I send the message
on this machine only
move a copy to the Archive folder

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Fix for: I have an Outlook 2007 rule which copies certain outgoing messages to another folder -- how do I automatically mark these messages as "read"?

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