Phantom Mail unread

A lady at Apple Watford solved the problem facing many people who recently upgraded their operating system to OS7 wherby the Mail icon shows many unread items, in my case 8042. Her solution which worked is:
Open Mail in the normal way to look at your Inbox
Press Edit
Press Mark All
Press Mark As Read
All fixed!!

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