Wrong number of messages in dock icon

I have a red circle with the number 3 attached to the Mail icon in my dock, even though I have read all messages in each of my mailboxes and folders. I created a Smart Mailbox that showed all unread messages and cleared everything that the Smart Mailbox found, yet the number 3 still persists. Does anyone know how to eliminate this number?
Thanks.

I had the same issue after a power failure knocked my iMac down in full operation. For days I had this nagging 1 message unread on my dock icon. I have a massive list of neatly organized hierarchical mailboxes, with an equally massive list of rules to put incoming messages straight into the appropriate mailbox depending on sender, subject, etc...
Reading this thread gave me the idea to create a smart mailbox with the unread messages. Bam! It showed the one message which was unread, even though the containing mailbox folder didn't show it as unread. That solved the problem.
You might try deleting the smart mailbox with the unread messages, (eventually stopping Mail, restarting the computer), and re-creating the smart mailbox for unread messages.

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I had the same issue after a power failure knocked my iMac down in full operation. For days I had this nagging 1 message unread on my dock icon. I have a massive list of neatly organized hierarchical mailboxes, with an equally massive list of rules to put incoming messages straight into the appropriate mailbox depending on sender, subject, etc...
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Jeff Greenberg's response was brilliant! Thanks Jeff.
I have had 2 "unread mail" items showing up for weeks and have been agonizing over what and where they were, how important the "unread" mail was, and what life experiences, deals, etc., I was missing out on. Creating a Smart Mailbox showing Unread mail worked - one caveat however: Add a second condition - that the the Unread Mail be in your INBOX (forgetting to add this condition this showed me HUNDREDS of unread mail items that resided in my OTHER Smart Mailboxes).
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Yes, I did: I used cmd-A to select all the messages and the inbox and mark them all as read. But it did not change anything.
The same way, the rebuilt mailbox did not have any effect neither.
Thanks anyway!
J.

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Welcome to Apple Discussions.
Yes, I see on the iCal icon the 4 is shifted up into the red. It's odd. Try this...
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-mj

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Thanks Mulder! Worked like a charm (mostly).
Let me clarify about the mostly part.
I followed the directions you gave and lo and behold my "dock count" was back to normal. The only problem was, all of my RSS articles are showing a header that looks like an email, instead of an RSS message. (Y'know with the Blue...)
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