Making Outlook behave like Gmail

[gfroese]

I saw this article on Lifehacker on configuring Outlook to operate like Gmail and have given it a shot.

I am now viewing my messages grouped by conversation and setup a rule to copy all my sent messages to the inbox, that works great. However, I want all these messages from myself to be automatically marked as read but I can't seem to get that to work.

I've tried creating a rule (right clicking on a message I sent in my inbox) and choose to have it marked as read, but it does not work.

How else can I do this?