# Managing unread counts in conjunction with email

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/managing-unread-counts-in-conjunction-with-email/15667>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [May 15, 2014, 7:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/managing-unread-counts-in-conjunction-with-email/15667 "2014-05-15T07:48:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![jhogendorn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jhogendorn/32/107592_2.png) [@jhogendorn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jhogendorn)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 7:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/managing-unread-counts-in-conjunction-with-email/15667/1 "2014-05-15T07:48:02Z")

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I use our instance of discourse mostly through email as a mailing list. But when I hop onto the site, it shows me this huge long list of things I ‘havent seen’, even though ostensibly I have.

I propose a tracking image or similar is put into the mail out template so that discourse can detect opened emails and keep this feature reasonably synced.

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