Email on Gmail account are not getting marked as read

I've actually had mailbird since 2014, stopped using it after a while :S

Hello everyone,

I've also been grappling with this issue for way too long and have exhausted every option. I decided to take a different approach. I removed my Gmail account from my Outlook app on my iOS device. Within a minute, I regained the ability to flag messages, mark them as read, or observe messages as read after they appeared in the preview pane. I encourage others to give this solution a try and see if it works for them.

Good luck,

Ryan Van Laeys
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I believe I found the solution to this problem.

The problem is with the way Microsoft deals with Focused inbox.

Goto Settings > Mail > Layout > Focused Inbox select "Don't sort my messages".

I have 3 emails with the new Outlook application. Two of the emails had the "Don't sort my messages" while one email had the "Sort messages into Focused and Other". The one email that had the sorting option enabled faced the problem, while the other two did not. I checked this by going to the web version of GMAIL of all three emails and doing a mark as read back and forth.

The problem seems to have been fixed for me for the past 3 days. However, I am going to keep an eye on the situation

Regards

The single most important things for all individuals in the free world are business communications, business scheduling and timely notification. Without those capabilities, there's no need for anything else. Everything else on a PC is irrelevant. Without those capabilities Windows serves no fundamental purpose for it's customers. Why is Microsoft pushing an unfinished product that takes care of these essential tasks to their customers? Would Microsoft like the economy to collapse? That's not an overstatement.

You may be correct, but there are options other than Microsoft. I gave up on any MS email client when this debacle started months ago. It's nice to not be fretting about email anymore.