Mail on iPhone showing "-2" messages in inbox...

This has been going on for a couple weeks now. If I have no messages in the inbox - it says I have "-2" - and if I have two or less opened emails in the inbox - it won't let me load them.

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Mail w/ Gmail showing "important" messages in inbox as unread even when deleted and read on other devices

This is a werid one but hoping somehere here can help or at the very least someone from Apple is listening.
I'm using several Gmail accounts across all of my macs and iPhone / iPad. To be specific:
13" MacBook Air - Mid 2011
13" MacBook Pro - Mid 2012
27" iMac - Mid 2012
iPhone 5s
iPad Mini
(All Macs are running 10.9 with the latest build of Mac Mail 7 (1822). All software updates are performed on all machines. Both iDevices are iOS7 latest versions.)
All of my emails (5 gmail accounts and 2 exchange accounts) but one (a Gmail account) work just fine across all devices. I have one Gmail account that acts weird, but only on one mac (iMac 27"). Here is the issue:
On this account, all devices EXCEPT the iMac, when I read a message it shows up as read on all other devices. When I delete a message it deletes from all other devices (but is still accessable from All Mail folder). However on the iMac, it never shows up as read (still shows the blue dot next to it and still shows a number next to the mailbox name). If I delete a message on another device, someimtes on the iMac is remains in the inbox, sometimes it deletes.
Some further info that might help / things I have tried:
I tried Removing the acocunt and re-adding it to Mail.
I have tried reindexing all mail per Apple's method. This works, but as new mail comes in, and gets read on other devices, the problem returns.
I have tried to "rebuild mailbox" about 20 times. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not. The problem always returns as above, after reading / deleting mail on other devices.
Sometimes just rebooting Mail seems to catch some of the items deleted on other devices, but not mail that is read on other devices
I also noticed that many of these mail itmes were labeled as "important" in GMail so I went in and switched Gmail out of the "important" mode and back to the classic. Then I reindexed and rebuilt again just to be sure. Now the mail is no longer labled Important, but the read counts are not correct and I'm still showing read mail as unread on this one device.
I have also deeply compared mail on my iMac and my MBA. All settings in preferences are the same.
Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? It's making it very hard to use my iMac for work and it's my primary machine. I'm cringing at the alternatives (outlook is simply not an option for me)

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TS4083 My iPhone shows unread messages however can find any

My iPhone shows unread messages however can not find any

I had the same problem on my iPhone 4S running iOS 6.0.1. I had an Exchange account that was showing 1 phantom email badge and when i went into the mail app.
I was able to get rid of it by
1. Deleting the account from Settings>Mail,Contacts,Calendar>Account
2. And then, recreating the account.
Hope this helps.
Sandeep.

Why when you log on by icloud on my iPhone show a message saying password error and try again Try again

Why when you log on by icloud on my iPhone show a message saying password error and try again Try again????????

Hey sergioo9,
Thanks for the question. Based on what you stated, it seems like you are having trouble signing into Messages on OSX. I would recommend that you read this article, it may be able to help you resolve or isolate the issue.
FaceTime, Game Center, Messages: Troubleshooting sign in issues - Apple Support
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Mario

Mt iPhone shows unread messages that aren't there! I have held down the power and home buttons until blank screen and apple icon appear only to find it is cleared, but within minutes the unread messages reappear! Please help

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Have you restored the iphone through itunes?
You say the unread messages aren't there but then they appear?

My mail stamp logo shows 7 messages but when I click to read them there is nothing there. It also shows 7 unread messages next to my icloud email address when I open the window. I am an original .mac email account holder now it seems like I have 3 emails

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I'm so confused! Is there a way to combined these all into one?

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I'm so confused! Is there a way to combined these all into one?

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Greetings everyone,
Finally downloaded Yosemite on my Mac, and had been warned about mail issues... but I did it anyway. Now the mail app opens and all of my mailboxes are there, but it says "no message selected". I see that I have new messages (from Gmail and also a Yahoo account), but am unable to access them.
I can compose and send, but cannot see what I sent after I hit "send" on the email.
So very frustrating, was hoping there would be an update/fix by now....?!?? Searching for a fix has been just as frustrating, it seems that everyone is experiencing different types of bugs.
Appreciate the help!

I've seen this issue too a few times. And found a "solution". But first, describe the problem:
Launching Mail, it will download new mail, but never shows any messages in any mailboxes.
Try to close the mail Message Viewer or Quit the app, and it hangs with beachball.
Force Quit and re-launch the Mail app and still can't see any messages.
SOLUTION: Log out and back in again, and Mail behaves normally.
After Force Quit, sent the crash log to Apple a few times ... so maybe they're working on it.
If you have this same problem and have to Force Quit, try sending the crash log to Apple ... lots of these will get someone's attention.
I'm guessing that some behind-the-scenes process (responsible for showing mail in mailboxes) is crashing or caught in a loop.
Logging out/in restarts that process.
But haven't had time to investigate further yet ...

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What Kind of email account is it.
If the account is Gmail or Yahoo, those are IMAP accounts which all messages can be retrieved from the server over and over again if you remove the account and re-add it.
Now if you are using like a SBC-Global, ATT.net, Bellsouth, Anything that is a POP3 Account it will only download new message and not past ones.

Inbox in Mail showing (4294963841 messages) but inbox is empty

in OS X 10.5.7 while using Mail 3.6 (935/935.3) My inbox header shows:
Inbox (4294963841 messages)
but my inbox is empty. This started occurring after upgrading to 10.5.7
M
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I'm having the same problem and have only noticed it since upgrading to 10.5.7. I've tried rebuilding the mailbox a few times, disabling the GrowlMail bundle, vacuuming Mail's SQLite database, and even tdeleting the account and starting over. (It's a Gmail account I connect to via IMAP.) And yet:
Inbox (4294966402 messages)
And the inbox is empty. I sent it an email and I get this report:
Inbox (4294967161 messages, 1 unread)
Not sure how one message counts as over 700, but there you go.
This is one of two Gmail accounts I check separately, and the other account is not behaving in this manner.
Mail also has some trouble quitting—I often have to force quit it. Not sure of those are related or not, but I have noticed it. Otherwise, this odd reporting of messages is benign, but bizarre.
Message was edited by: Arlo Guthrie (changed a misspelled word)

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I tried searching but couldn't find an answer.
My iPhone only shows messages that I received in the previous month even if there are older messages actually in the Inbox (still visible in Mail.app and webmail). This is an Exchange account.
Is this a setting somewhere? Is there any way to show everything in my inbox instead of only things from the previous month?
Thanks in advance...

There is a setting for this with an Exchange account accessed via ActiveSync on an iPhone.
I don't know the exact location for this since I don't access an Exchange account with the iPhone's mail client, but there is an option to sync all messages or the last 30 days, etc. Check all available account settings on your iPhone.

My mail icon keeps showing 1 message, but I don't have a message.

My mail Icon on my Iphone keeps showing 1 message, but I don't have any messages.
How do I make it stop?
Thanks!

I have one regular email account and one account that I use to collect text messages from friends with two-way pagers. I have checked all inboxes and they are empty. I have rebooted. I have deleted and recreated the account and when it reappears (the text account) it shows 3 messages but the inbox is empty. I fiqure this has something to do with it being an "[email protected]" account but I have been using it this way for a while and this is the first time I have these ghost messages

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I am unable to clear 1 message in my email inbox showing on the icon. I have tried clearning out all messages in my inbox and it still shows 1 message remaining unread. I erased messages 5 days ago and since then it has been showing 1 message remaining. How can I clear this from the icon? Thanks

Ouit Mail app. (Remove from MultiTasking bar).
Double tap the home button to bring up the multitasking dock. Tap and hold an app. A red badge with a minus symbol will appear on the icons. Tap the minus symbol of Mail app to quit.

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Mail sometimes doesn't show new messages for an IMAP account. The badge in the dock says that there is a new mail but it doesn't show up in the inbox. I'm sure that I didn't just miss it, because, smart mailboxes will not find that new mail as well. When I restart mail, the mail finally shows up in the inbox as well.
Anybody else seeing this and what can I do to resolve that issue?
Thanks!

I'll bring everyone up to speed on what's been happening with my family accounts. I first suspected Safari, because it seemed to be a local problem, but then, inexplicably, all mobileme mail accounts tied to that family account, which included 4 subaccounts and 1 mail-only account, not only did not work in mail.app, but also failed in other email clients I tested, including clients on Linux. Also, the webmail version was not working well, either.
So, if your problem is isolated to a single computer and just to mail.app, or just with a particular network, then I think the local troubleshooting steps are the way to go.
But, if your problem extends to other platforms, clients, and webmail, then it is likely an issue the engineers at Apple will have to figure out. I found the online chat service for mobileme users to be very helpful in checking through all the 'usual suspects' and after we had pretty much ruled out any of the usual culprits, it was escalated to the engineers, who are working on it now.
They were able to release all the email that had been piling up, but there are still some glitches they are trying to iron out. As an aside, I have been personally managing various mail servers for a dozen years, and am well aware of the difficulties in diagnosing email problems, and it was stumping me, and I have intimate knowledge of Exim and Exchange and various email modules used with mx services.
+While this 'should never happen', it's unrealistic for users to expect it never will. Of all the services provided on the Internet, email, is arguably the most complex service and it's become much more complex in the past few years. In my work, typically 94% of all email traffic hitting the server is filtered out as spam. So, the 6% that is allowed through is the stuff most of us see and are spending time and resources filtering out the 20-40% additional unwanted spam that the host let through because if they tightened it down any further the risk of false positives would become too great. I spend way more time on the mail service aspects of my job than the web services, and mail problems occupy at least 80% of my troubleshooting logs. So, while email seems more 'simple' than the exotic and bandwidth intensive services like video chat, voip, and web2 transactions, compared to the amount of wasted bandwidth and cpu cycles filtering packets, I think email is the number one problem service for most host providers. We tried to depend upon it for mission-critical communications, and it was never designed for that initially, and the spammers are making certain it won't achieve that status at least in the near future. If anything, email is your least dependable Internet service. Combine this with the growing array of user configurations, email clients, forwarding/retrieving/syncing scenarios, and user experience, and you may find yourself uttering a little prayer now and then for the poor email administrators and support personnel.+
[end of sermon - thanx for letting me get that off my chest; I feel better now! I'll feel a lot better when my email is flowing smoothly, but that's out of my hands for now.]

Mail is restoring thousands of messages to inbox

I upgraded from Tiger 10.4 to Leopard 10.5.8 about a month ago and have been running Time Machine.
I move my mail from my inbox (I have several accounts) to different topic files, so that I don't have more that about 100 messages in the sum of my inboxes. I never delete messages, so this has nothing to do with the trash.
Searching the contents of mail didn't work, so I tried rebuilding the accounts within the inbox.
Now here is the weird thing. If I look at the Time Machine backup of ~/Library/Mail/POP-<account>, I see that there have been about 6000 .emlx files in the folder, but I only saw about 50 to 100 of these at any one time.
When I did the rebuild, it gradually increased the number of files in the folder to about 11000. It must have been getting these from the folders to which I had moved the messages, because I had taken mail offline, so it couldn't be getting them from the POP mailbox. When the rebuild was finishing, the status line in the window header said about 6 billion messages.
Now that the rebuild has completely finished, it says 143 messages 88 unread, but there are still 6241 .emlx files in the folder.
This is really weird. What on earth is going on?

Well, I moved the 143 messages to another mailbox, so that account's inbox was empty. (These messages were all really old ones, not recent ones) Then I rebuilt that account's inbox. Again, the folder on disk grew to over 11000 messages, then reduced again back to 6241 .emlx files. When the rebuild had finished, there were no messages showing in account's inbox, despite the 6241 files in the folder.
Then I quit Mail, removed the Envelope Index file, and then restarted Mail to re-import all the mail (in accordance with http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/3.0/en/14019.html). Towards the end of the import, all 6241 files were moved across from the old inbox messages folder to the new one (with all new .emlx file numbers).
So mail really thinks those files should be there, but doesn't show them in the inbox. I really don't understand where Mail is getting the details and locations of the messages for restoring them (even temporarily) to the inbox!!
The only unusual thing is that the POP account on the server has some 14,000 messages. There are actually two MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded files, the second called MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded2.

Showing new messages in inbox on GNU/Linux

Thanks to everyone who works on Mozilla Thunderbird. I am running TB 31.1.0 from the Mozilla Build on Debian GNU/Linux 7. I find that when new mail arrives, my inbox list does not scroll to show the messages. I have it sorted by increasing date, so the newest messages arrive at the bottom. The scrollbar changes and I can scroll it manually. I'd really like to see that new mail subject at a quick glance, however. I know I have a message because I get a few pixels of the first new one showing. I used to use TB on Windows all the time and I thought it featured a behavior that would autoscroll to show at least a few of the newest messages. My window is sized so about 14 rows are showing at one time and I have about 175 messages in my inbox. When I have read all mail, I usually leave the list scrolled so the last message is at the bottom. You can see a screenshot over at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1018216?esab=a&s=&r=0&as=s.
So my questions are:
1) am I missing some way to enable the behavior I desire?
2) If not, should I get involved as a developer and try to fix the code to behave the way I would like?
3) Does TB behave on Windows the way I describe?

summer14, In case you haven't resolved this yet.
polzbert's solustion is excellent, assuming you have a backup drive using Time Machine. However, did you try rebuilding the inbox? If not, here's how:
Select the mail box that's giving you trouble in the left pane of Apple Mail. Then choose "rebuild" iunder the Mailbox Menu Item. This has resolved countless mailbox glitches for me in the past.

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