Mail stop counting my gmail inbox unread number

I've read some of the posts here claming mail doesn't show unread number in dock icon. My issue is different.
The thing is that mail stop counting unread mails in my gmail inbox.
see below
If my iCloud inbox has unread emails, the number will show in the app as well as at dock icon. Or if I switch to show All Mailboxes, unread mail number in other mailboxes from my gmail account will show.
Anyone has ideas how to fix this? Thanks

oh forgot to mention a couple other clear signs that mail.app is "confused" here:
if i right click on a mailbox in the mailboxes window and select "get info..." (a very useful command hidden in an odd place), it shows me that right now my inbox has 3 messages and my temp mailbox has 50 messages. but when i look at either of these mailboxes normally, they show up with zero messages.
if i send myself a test message and then tell mail.app to check for mail, the new message indicator comes on and my inbox temporarily shows up as having 3 new messages. then when i click on it, it shows up as empty and the new message indicator goes away again. if i repeat this it will say 4 new messages, etc.
so it's acting like there's some kind of corrupt partial message at the top of my inbox that mail.app can't read and keeps choking on. i've had this happen before on other imap servers a while back. for those servers, i had normal login access, so i could go and edit or delete the offending file. in this case (apple's .mac server), i don't know how to do the equivalent.

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