As you might have read in my previous post, after years of suffering with Windows Mobile, I finally have made the switch to Android by buying a Desire HD.
I was extremely happy with the fact that with the new version of sense that is on the Desire HD, you can add multiple exchange email accounts. However, one of the things that I could not find is to mark all messages in an email box as read. The only possible workaround I could find was to manually select each of the messages, after which I would press “Mark read”. If you have a lot of messages in the mailbox, this is a lot of work 
I thought that it should be possible to mark all messages at once, but I could not find anything about it on google. After some playing around with it, I finally got it
To mark all messages as read, you have to follow these steps:
- Open the HTC Mail app
- Select any of the messages
Marking all messages as read in HTC Mail app - Step 01
- Press “Menu” button. Notice that this time it is different than pressing the button when nothing is selected
Marking all messages as read in HTC Mail app - Step 02
- Press “Select All”
- Press “Mark as unread”
- Repeat the steps to select all messages
- Now press “Mark as read”
and there you have it, all messages in your mailbox are now marked as read
Please note that you only need to do the steps for marking all messages as unread in case some of the messages in your mailbox are read and some are unread. In this situation, you only have the option to mark everything first as unread, after which you can select everything again and mark the messages as read.
Odd they’d DISABLE this feature between your version and mine. My HTC Mail looks quite different and has none of these options. sigh. I can’t believe MARK ALL AS READ is a feature millions of bloggers want, and it’s this hard.
Thanks for the tip, you are a life saver
This has been driving me insane since I got it – finally googled it and found your answer – thanks heaps!!!
Even better, if you want to save a couple of steps, you can select an UNREAD message (so that “mark as unread” already shows up), hit menu, select all, mark as read.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! Coming from a BB, you just select any msg and choose to mark all previous as “read”. Can’t believe this mail app doesn’t have this.
Btw, the way this app is setup, I assume there will never be an “update”. Maybe with an OS update?
I also found the HTC mail app very different from these screen shots on my new mtyouch 3g slide. There is no “select all” to be found anywhere.
So I ended up installing the free K-9 mail app, much more flexible range of choices.
Sam
On the sensation the selection icon is a lot smaller, but it’s still there, one the far left of the message. And the above method works as well.
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I knew the option would have to be somewhere! Being trying to work that out for the past few days on my new Sensation. Thank You!
Finally! I’ve been struggling for months deleting messages after selecting them one by one. Thank you so much for this post!!