Mail unread count

I have installed the latest Lion upgrade - 10.7.3 (11D50d).
I know have a problem with my mail inbox constantly showing 6 unread mails against my Exchange mail account when the real count is 0.  iPhone and the hosted eExchange web mail portal displays the correct number.
Anybody had the same problem and/or knows how to resolve it?
Thanks
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If only messages in one or two mailboxes have this condition, then with each mailbox click on Mailbox in the menubar and choose Rebuild. Be aware that during Rebuild all messages will briefly disappear -- don't panic, but let it finish.
You can also select all messages in each mailbox, click on Message in the menubar and choose Mark as Read.
This is an indexing problem, and there is a way to force Mail to reindex all mailboxes. If that were needed, I would want to point you to instructions that can differ if you only have POP accounts, versus IMAP.
Ernie

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