Number of messages in Smart Mailbox

A question & some relavent thoughts:
In Mail, the number of Unread messages is shown the right of each mailbox. But what are the total number messages?   Alternatively, how many Read messages are there?
I have many folders. I am trying to create separate mailboxes for each important (to me) Sender. Then it would be possible to find out how many messages were in 1 Smart Mailbox not contained in any other Smart Mail Box by
1. having a Smart Mailbox containing all mail, and
2. specifying conditions: From ... Does not contain ...   Sender
3. for each Sender
This would be very tedious if one receives mail from many senders. However, if
1. all senders belong to at least 1 Group,
this might be onerous but at least feasible.
If however,there were a Smart Mailbox condition:
2. Group ... Does not contain ...   Sender,
then this would feasible witnout being too onerous.
If anyone has any answers and/or suggestions, I would be very happy to receive same!
Chuck

I have had the same problem as well and could not find any way of fixing it! Also when I changed the name of the folder the message count disappeared for a while and then seemed to come back later... very bizarre.
Anyway, I may have found a solution after spending all afternoon searching the internet on macosxhints. [Link goes to the specific hint].
I would advise making a complete back-up of your ~/Library/Mail folder before trying this, though. When I did this it seemed to re-import some messages and mark them as unread for some unknown reason. However, I went through and marked them all as 'read', and I have the same number of messages in each mailbox as I did before I tried this, so I can only assume that things are the same as before.
One thing has changed, however! I no longer have a false number on the 'Flagged' messages smart mailbox! (Although if you have lots of messages marked as 'flagged' it may clear the flag - not sure).
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