4.3 billion unread messages? Um...

Well, I'll grant you that I've been playing with a few plugins for Mail.app, but it's been nothing extensive. I tried Letterbox, and didn't like it, so I disabled it. And I'm using Mail Badger right now to track the counts of two different inboxes on my dock icon.
Now... I just happened to look up, and I saw this:
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/8340/picture4bk0.png
There is no way in heII that I could possibly have even NEAR that many messages. Not only that, my dock icon says there's no unread. And there ISN'T any unread messages anywhere, including all my folders and my RSS.
Can anyone explain this?

I found similar anomalies when I moved from IMAP on one server to IMAP on Gmail.
Try quitting Mail, deleting "~/Library/Mail/Envelope Index" and then restarting.
-fred

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No joke I just check my POP e-mail account (the one I can't send an email from BTW) and it said "Load 25 More Meessage : 2,147,483,646 unread
what is going on. I check mail via webmail and I don't have any e-mail there. Help

Your post gave me a great laugh! I've never seen anything like that before! That calls for a screenshot and a forward to Macworld.
If you are having trouble with that account, maybe try completely deleting it and re-entering all the settings. Something might be wrong that you haven't noticed. I know this isn't the best advice, but it's what I've done in the past when setting up accounts. Sometimes when one thing is wrong, everything ends up getting messed up when you try to fix it.
With email-sending issues, make sure you have the right ports set up. I go crazy with that every time, but different services require different ports. Try the forums for the Apple Mail program. Usually searching there will reveal the different ports required.
It could also have something to do with your internet connection (if the problem only happens when you are on WiFi rather than EDGE.) I use one secure connection that I have never been able to use to send email from any account.

Collapsed view: how to see "most recent unread message" instead of "first unread message" in a thread in Mail

Hey all,
I use the inbuilt Mail-software on my Macbook with Lion 10.7 and I constantly overlook new messages in a thread, as I organize by conversation and usually have all my threads in 'collapsed view'. For some reason Mail seems to prefer showing the 'first', i.e. the earliest unread message as the one message that I see in collapsed. If there are newer messages already in the thread, I don't see them, unless I un-collapse the thread. I find this really unintuitive and annoying, my inbox seems far more static than it really is.
Is there any way to change this and have Mail show me the most recent unread message as the message I see in collapsed view?
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PS: BTW, I have the same problem on my iPhone, double props to you if you can solve it for both Mail and iPhone!

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I have a new iPhone 6 plus and all is OK. But the mail shows more than 400 'unread' messages whereas there are none in the mailbox or trash or anywhere else I have looked. I can send and receive with no problem. I'm sure I have no unread messages.

I have a new iPhone 6 plus and all is OK. But the mail shows more than 400 'unread' messages whereas there are none in the mailbox or trash or anywhere else I have looked. I can send and receive with no problem. I'm sure I have no unread messages.

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How can i get my daughter's imessage on my iphone and still have it show up on her ipod as an unread message

I have my iPhone setup so I can also get all of the iMessages that my daughter sends and receives on her iPod. The problem is that if I read the message first then it doesn't show up as a new message on her iPod and therefore she doesn't know that a message was sent. Is there a way that I can get my daughter's iMessage on my iPhone and still have it show up on her iPod as an unread message? Any ideas from anyone will help. I can't figure it out

HI,
I am not sure that I can really add anything to to this.
Apple used the phrase "sync" when saying what Messages on the Mac would do in regards to showing iMessages that were going to iOS devices.
It took to OS X 10.8.2 and iOS 6 to get as close as we have right now.
At best it looks like "Sync" means "Display on all Devices" and not much more.
The Mac version implies it will do more as there is a setting to notify people by return that you have read the iMessage.
The iOS devices have a similar "Send Receipts" item in the settings.
However actually reading an iMessage on one device seems to bear very little resemblance to anything that happens or can be seen on another device.
It seems for most people reading an iMessage on one device shows nothing at all on another device (the presumption being it arrives all places at the same time)
Your post is the closest I have seen to someone suggesting that it can be different on different devices.
You also seem to be implying that there is almost a time difference it the time your iPhone gets the iMessage and the time the iPod touch gets it.
I have certainly seen the "silent arrival" of iMessages on both my iPhone (when my computer and Messages is On) and on the iPhone if the conversation started on the Mac.
The Mac end will show both "Sent" and Received sides as it "Syncs" the conversation and beeps the alert sound for the Received part and the iPhone will remain silent.
Even "talking it through" like this in this post I am not coming to any real conclusions about what to try.
I am not even sure what to suggest to test for things to look out for.
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Unread message count not updating in Mail.app

I am running a MBP 15" with 10.4.10 and Mail.app (version 2.1.1 build 752.3) and as you can see in this screengrab here:
the unread message count is not correctly updating.
This may actually be something for the Mail dev' team to handle, unless some one else out there in the groups has some inside knowledge about this issue.
For that matter, I do not know how to forward this to the Mail dev' team inside Apple, so if any one else does, please do.
Cheers.
Jason
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Jason,
What screengrab?
What type of account do you have -- POP, IMAP or .mac? How many accounts do you have? Do you access your account from more than one computer?
Unread message count where -- on the Mail Icon in the Dock or in individual mailboxes? In the Dock, the Unread message count will NOT reflect any messages moved to custom mailboxes by Rules, but only those in the Inboxes.
Ernie

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Ok, this is a very confusing topic. I have connected Apple Care, and they understand what I'm trying to do, but say there is "no way" that it can be done. But I know there is a way so hopefully someone can help.
First, this is what I'm asking for...then I'll explain why. I am looking for a way to "hide" the unread mail counts of a SPECIFIC FOLDER. (not the in box, not all messages, ONLY messages in ONE folder.)
Here is why.... I finally got my mother using email with her Verizon DSL address in Mail.app. The problem is, she is one of those people that "deletes" just about every message she gets because she "doesn't need it anymore" But, there has been many times where she has deleted something that down the road might be needed - and therefore, it is lost. Sure, Time Machine is set up and could recover it, and there are other ways of getting things back, but is just too difficult, and those methods don't last forever.
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So as you can see....this is very difficult, but yet the problem is so simple and should have an easy fix. All I want is a way to backup all incoming messages, and keep them stored in a folder that marks them as read.
Could anyone PLEASE help me out with this? _Apple says there is no way to do this because of the limitations in the Rules that mail.app provides_....but it does give me the option to run an Apple Script. _AppleCare said that it could easily be done via an Apple Script_, but I have NO CLUE on how to even start that! Even the easy tutorials I tried left me confused.
So - ANY ideas????
Thank you SO much in advance for anyone that could help out!
-Scott

Sorry I am marking this solved, but it never was.
The best thing that could be done is to rely on Time Machine, or forward all of your incoming email to another address.
Apparently, there is no way to do what I asked. But there should be. So Apple, please fix this.
Again, sorry I am marking it as solved.

New forum feature: A button or option to jump to the first unread message in a thread.

It would be handy if we had a way to open a thread and jump to the first unread message in the thread. This is especially usual when reading very active threads and it would save us some time getting back to the point in the discussion where we left off.
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From reading some of the other threads, I see that NI is working on some upgrades and modifications to the Forums.
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To get unread messages in any folder "exactly once"

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c. Also to be clear, in the interim period between two polls, if the user really reads a mail via his/her client, then in the next poll i am not interested in those read mails. So the question arises only if the user doesn't check any mail where my application really comes into picture
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Thanks. It's working for 'IMAP'. I need it for IMAP only.

Mail icon no longer displays unread message count

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4.3 billion unread messages? Um...

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