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?

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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,
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Freeware applications:
* EasyFind 4.0
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* ThumbsUp 4.3
* XMenu 1.8
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Sort by Date & see if we can find these emails next time the count goes up.

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