Only if you have actually opened and read the emails, IMHO. You could put the icons in the tool bar for marking emails as read or unread and click on them at the time you are saving your attachments to get whichever affect you desire. Visit 'View' and then 'Customize Toolbar...' to add the icons. Jens On Sep 29, 2008, at 7:08 PM, Ed Gould wrote: > There is no right or wrong way of doing this but I think the group > here might want to pipe up and say their opinion one way or the other. > > In mail app when you highlight say 5 emails and the file-->save > attachments ---save, should the emails that have had attachments > saved, should they be marked as read or not? Jens Selvig ...Lost in Montana...