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iCloud mail? You can log in at icloud.com on a computer and in Mail set up a rule. The rule as it is offered will mark the email as "read".
 
Most email providers should offer the ability to do this. Like BB says, set up a "rule" (different systems may call it something different). I have some set up with Google mail.
 
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