On Sat, Feb 5, 2022 at 04:03 PM, Jacob Kruger wrote:

I myself have always left it turned off since it would then otherwise mark a message as read after had just been focused on it for a couple of seconds,

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Just for the record, that is configurable.  Mind you, if you land on an unread message and walk away, even the maximum number of minutes will not save you from eventually having it marked as read.  But most don't do this in that they either read first and walk away or quickly shift focus on to a previously read message so that they will still have the one they don't have time to read now remain marked as unread.
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