Help: Need to mark message as read

Anon

I built a web-based email application using PHP and am now going back and adding some features to it. One thing I'd like to do is know how to mark a message as read or seen and how to tell if a message is unseen. So when I log in to check my email I can tell whether the message is new or not by coloring the link a different color then after I open it it changes to the default color as read or unseen. I cannot seem to find help anywhere on this, any help would be very much appreciated!

Thank you!

inspire

Well, if you have to follow a link to read the email than I believe the solution to your problem is fairly basic.

alink
vlink
link

attribute go in the <body> tag in your html, and respectively are responsible for the colors of those links.

Cheers,

John