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Fix new message counts with Gmail IMAP and Mail
Authored by: joshforman on Apr 10, '08 09:04:51AM

If you do this, then you're going to also mark those messages read in the Inbox too, which I think defeats the purpose. If you can script Mail to refresh its mail counts, then that would be more useful.It doesn't appear this is the case though.

The other option is to set your Unread mailbox to show
1. Message is Unread
2. Message is not in Mailbox "All mail" (under account #1)
3. Repeat #2 for each account

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Fix new message counts with Gmail IMAP and Mail
Authored by: djc0 on Apr 10, '08 04:45:46PM

I tend to agree here. If you do still find All Mail as marked as read and the Inbox as unread you might just be experiencing a delay between mail.app and Gmail updating each other. Just wait a bit and all will end up "read".

The reason:

read in All Mail in mail.app => read in All Mail in Gmail => read in Inbox in Gmail => read in Inbox in mail.app

All via the wonders of IMAP.



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