Just deleting does not mark it as read. If you were to just delete it, then
go to your Deleted Items folder, you would see that it remains "bolded"
indicating that it remains unread.
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Jim Pickering, MVP/Windows Mail applications
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"David Wright" <DavidWright@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4358C6B4-7921-490D-90FE-5B182FA77B6C@microsoft.com...
> Thank you for your quick response Jim. I guess I will have to do that, it
> just seems strange that deleting the "new" email doesn't remove the icon
> from
> the system tray.