False New Mail Indicator in Dock

Hello,
This morning when I launched Mail it showed 3 new messages. Looking to my Mail folders I saw none. Sifting through my Mail folders I found 2 messages from back in March that had become unread. The 3rd mysterious new message is still un found.
Any ideas please.

Create a smart mailbox in Mail > Mailbox > New smart mailbox...
That should point the the unread messages.
Regards,
Captfred

Similar Messages

False "new mail" indicator

Upgraded to Mavericks, now I'm getting a false "new mail" indicator on both my dock and Mac Mail program. It's only on one on of my three email accounts, and I've already tried a smart mailbox to search for any unread emails. Had this happen before on my MacBook Pro, no one at the Genius Bar could figure it out. Now I'm on my MacBook Air, less than a year old, it's making me NUTS!
Anyone have any ideas how to proceed?

UPDATED: the Mavericks 1.0 update just debugged the Gmail problem, so all good. Grateful to the nerds in Cupertino for handling their business.

New Mail Indicator in Title Bar

Anyone else think that a new mail indicator in the title bar (e.g. next to the battery indicator) would be a good idea? Is it even technically possible? I don't like audio mail notifications but I'd like to see if there was a new mail waiting while I'm browsing or suchlike.

Well, that's true though if you put the mail app in your tray on the bottom you can see it from all screens. But you have to exit an app to see it. What you're talking about is a good idea. When multitasking comes out this summer, maybe someone will write a mail notification app that operates in the background. Feed it back to Apple in the Feedback forum so they'll hear about it as they probably won't from here.

No 'new mail' counter in dock and sender address overwriting

All of the sudden, new mail doesn't cause the icon in the dock to show the indicator/counter. I have tried resetting mail by throwing out previous settings, plists, etc. but it still isn't there. I also tried reinstalling the latest Tiger combined update. Still didn't work.
In addition, when I look at mail, the sender's name/address is displayed almost on top of the subject heading.
Any thoughts on how to fix this? I have also done the usual permissions repair, Disk Utility Repair and even TechTool Pro Repair
20" intel iMac 2GHz, 2 GB memory Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Everything is back to normal, although just performing the Font Book reset didn't work.
I looked at all the fonts on my MacBook (in Font Book) and compared it with all the fonts that were on my iMac. Times and Helvetica were not there ( but there were Times CY, and Helvetica CY whatever they are!) There were some others as well. So I added them in using Font Book (rather than just dragging them to the respective Font folders) and now all is right with the world.
Thanks!

New mail indicator won't go away

My mail icon continuously says I have 1 new mail even though I don't -- once I access my inbox it says I have no new messages, but the icon won't go away.
Also, I have BCC turned off, but my gmail is still BCCing me all of my sent messages. How can I make it stop?

Reset your phone(hold down home and sleep/wake buttons until the Apple logo comes up)
As for Gmail go to Settings>Mail>Select the Gmail account>Advanced> and make sure that in the Mailbox Behaviors the Sent Mailbox is set to <Sent Messages>

False new mail alert

Whenever I go to the sent or junk mail boxes, I get a red dot indicating I have new incoming mail when there is none.
In case it matters, I'm connected to two different mail servers.

Hi Al,
Not certain, but this can fix myriad Mail problems...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move these folder & file to the Desktop.
Move this Folder to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/
Move this file to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Envelope Index
Reboot.

IOS 6 mail indicator

With IOS 6 the new mail indicator on the home screen defaults to the VIP mailbox. Is there a way to change it to show how many new messages are in the inbox?

I'm having the exact same issues here too, ever since upgrading to iOS4, before then it was working just fine. I have a hosted IMAP account from gandi.net as they are my domain registrar and host, so to confirm what I've been reading, it's definitely not an issue with a particular mail service, but the Mail app itself. Accessing it from Mail on my Macbook (10.6.4) works just fine, not one issue. I do find that restarting my iPod Touch (2nd generation) does seem to resolve the issue, or rather get the messages all caught up, but the issue comes right back again with new messages. I hope the next update expected from Apple this week or next will resolve the issue.

Email folder not showing "new mail" alert

I have several email folders on my blackberry. When I recieve an email it only shows up on the "messages" folder. My previous BB would show the new mail indicator in both "Messages" folder and the specific email folder it belonged in. If I go to the specific folder, the email is inside, it just will not alert me to this folder. Hope this makes sense.
Currently I have 4 specific email folders, a text folder, and a messages folder.
How can I fix this?
I have an 8310 that was just replaced by another 8310 thru insurance coverage.
Thank you very much!

Not sure if this will work but try going into your email and hit bb menu key and choose message alerts and make sure you have a notification set for each one
Hope it helps
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>~
Hope I was able to help
If you have received information that has helped you out, please give them Kudos.
If your problem has been solved, please click on the post that resolved the issue

New mail icon

starting today, the mail icon in my doc has a red circle with the number 1. I do not have any new unread mail. I have check in my inbox, sent mail, trash, and junk mailboxes. I can't seem to get rid of the red circle. Any ideas?

I had the same problem, except that Mail was constantly adding 9 to the number of new mail count. Neither reindexing nor rebuilding the mailboxes solved the problem. Finally, I went into Mail preferences, and on the general tab, I set the new mail indicator option to "inbox only" and it's working fine now. Hope this helps.

Mail button erroneously indicating new mail

My inbox is indicating there is new mail when in fact there is not. There is also a button on the dock icon indicating new mail.
I have quit the program and restarted and it did not go away. Any suggestions?

I recall I have a "ghost" email issue a while back. Mail's dock icon would say I had 2 unread mails, but when I'd look at the Inbox there was nothing to be seen, and the count mysterious went to zero .. only to go back to 2 some time later.
I finally discovered that there were two messages which had been originated by my ISP's mail system administrator, but which were missing some headers or were corrupt in some other way. I could see them when I used the Web Mail system provided by my ISP, but they weren't visible in Mail. While in the Web Mail, I deleted these messages and the problem went away.
So, if you have some odd issues with Mail, it's always worth using your ISP's Web Mail system to see if there's something unusual in your Inbox.
Bob

New mail notification counter not appearing in dock

I've noticed recently that my new mail notification counter doesn't appear in the dock if I have Mail sitting in the background. I can be working in, say, Word, and not know I have new mail. Yet, when I go to Mail there are emails sitting there (and the dock counter appears as soon as I go to Mail.
Not a major problem, I agree, but it would be nice to fix it, if anyone has any suggestions.
Cheers
Phil

Thanks for the replies. I do have preferences set as you suggest but am not getting the notifications when Mail is in the background. I'll just live with it...
Cheers
Phil

Mail Dock icon "new mail" count wrong

The Mail icon in my dock shows 11 new mails. I open Mail and there is no new mail. The icon then shows none, then a bit later it shows 11 again. If I get a real new mail it will show 12 new mails. The actual number of new mail adds to the phantom 11.
What is going on here?

I'd get EasyFind...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11076
Here's a direct download link to EasyFind 4.0 which runs in 10.3.9 & up...
http://www.devon-technologies.com/files/legacy/macosx1039/EasyFind.dmg.zip
From this page,
http://www.devon-technologies.com/support/faqs.php?p=default&cat=19
Freeware applications:
* EasyFind 4.0
* PhotoStickies 5.6
* ThumbsUp 4.3
* XMenu 1.8
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/8707
Use it to search your whole drive for case insensitive & show invisibles...
.emlx
(dot ee em el ex)
Sort by Date & see if we can find these emails next time the count goes up.

Wrong number of new mails in dock icon

I have created a number of (local) folders and rules that move the appropriate mail to those folders. However the dock icon counts only the number of new mails in the IN-box and not the ones in those folders. Should I have done something else?

In Mail's General preferences, you can set the "Dock unread count" popup menu to "All Mailboxes" instead of "Inbox Only".
If you need an even more specific way to determine the quantity, you can create a new smart mailbox in which you define how you want the count generated. You can then set the popup menu to this smart mailbox instead of the "All Mailboxes" or "Inbox Only" choices.
Hope this helps....

New mail not being indicated in nested folders

I have just noticed that new mail does not get indicated unless the folder in which it has been stored is opened. As I have a lot of mail folders, this isn't practical. It worked fine before I installed Leopard (said installation also rendering my computer unusable for about 6 hours incidentally until I could decipher command line instructions to rescue it), but now I have no way of knowing if I have new mail without opening every single folder I have.
Actually I didn't notice, I had a phone call from an irate client wanting to know why I hadn't responded to her email of 6 hours previous. On accessing her folder I found the emails, then opened up all the other folders to discover I had new mail all over the place, this instigating a pretty hectic period where I tried to cram a whole days email replying into 30 seconds.
So is this a bug, a preference setting or any idea what?
I must say that so far Leopard seem to be the most successful bug introduction Apple has ever pulled off. Maybe only 8.6 was more spectacular, what with it's hard disc destruction mode.
Bah!!!

Glad to see that someone else has the same problem as me!!
I only have about 10 different folders with rules attached so I've taken to clicking on each folder when checking for new mail.
It's incredibly annoying though and is again a problem only since I upgraded to Leopard.
Anyone got any ideas or insight?!
As Sean put it perfectly - 'Bah'!!

Mail Dock icon only shows when Inbox has new mail, not other folders.

Hi
I've got Rules set up for Mail to move new mail to various folders on receipt, depending on the nature of the emails.
However the Mail icon in the Dock only indicates when new messages are in the Inbox, not other new emails which might be in other folders waiting to be read.
Is there some way to fix this so that it notifies me of all new emails?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Richard

Are you running leopard?
Under preferences on my mail (version 3.1.1 i think) then the 'general' tab there is an option "dock unread count" which you can set to inbox/none or all mailboxes.
I don't remember this being an option under Tiger but it may be worth looking for if you're not on Leopard.
Hope this helps

False New Mail Indicator in Dock

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for