[Q] How to automatically mark all messages from non-contacts as "read"?

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[Q] How to automatically mark all messages from non-contacts as "read"?

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paul_1149 is a queer person

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I'm mostly on TG Desktop (5.13.1, Linux). The biggest annoyance has been the number of spam messages coming in due to my participation in groups.

I have them all sent to a folder I call non-contacts. This makes marking them Read fairly easy through the context menu.

But these messages, while they are still marked unread, show up in TG's system panel badge. On Windows this would be called the Taskbar.

It would be great if I could set all incoming messages from non-contacts to AUTOMATICALLY be marked Read! Is there a way to do this? Under Privacy and Security I already have "Archive and Mute new chats from unknown users" enabled, and it seems to do nothing.

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