Mac Mail inbox counter error - among other bugs

Thanks, but have done this in the past with some success, now under Big Sur - nothing works as it should.

Didn't work - subfolder is still showing "2" for every "1" message that is redirected to that folder.

And the mailbox count flags - is there **ANY** fix for this? They are unbelievably ridiculously hard to see. Why did it get switched from red to dull grey? Dull grey on a dull grey background?? Awful.

Eagerly anticipating the non-beta version of Big Sur.

Mail has lots of issues...

• very slow opening Rules dialogue box
• ridiculously narrow Prefs window - cannot see full name of email addresses - this has been for decades
• now new fault I discovered when adding attachments, if you change the name of the recipient, deletes the attachments [is this a feature or a bug? I would figure a bug, no idea why it would remove files]
• saving files - why is it when you save a message [I save emails to work dockets] it doesn't automatically save the attachments too?

So, still holding out hope for a much-improved Mac Mail. Some day.

Have not done so for years after a nasty spell with one monitoring app that turned out to be more of a virus than what it was meant for - far too intrusive.

What I would hope for is that Apple would have sufficiently developed their Mail app and OS to handle what appears to be a relatively basic process.

What do you recommend? Hopefully not some gawd-awful app that pops up every five minutes giving me some shocking notification about an unnecessary action that must be taken.

Thanks in advance!

OK, thanks... but back to MacMail - especially under BS - i.e. "Big Sur" it is awful, unreliable [erroneous counter] and difficult to view [inability to discern count dots from background].

Am I stuck with this mess?

BS was just updated last night. Now the dialogue boxes in all apps are collapsed and even more of nightmare.

Not good.

Still searching for answers to Mac Mail's current dismal state.

Thanks!

For me MacMail under Catalina worked fine. Count was correct and I could see the notification dots.

Under BS - have stated the issues are: count is always wrong, now it adds a number for each draft to the inbox [this is an anomaly that is only just now showing up] and the medium grey counters are nearly impossible to see against the grey background.

No third party software involved. This is MacMail all by itself. Gotten worse.

And just today the dialogue box issue - lighting up other threads on this board.

But here we are trying to "help" each other when Apple is the one that should be helping.

Apple - please help. Please fix this.

We cannot fix this ourselves because we didn't create the problem.

Thanks.

The further question would be - why is the dialogue box issue being discussed at all on Appleseed?

Why wasn't it an issue with those were supposedly supposed to test the beta release?

That is mind-blowing.

Still seeking a response to assist with the inability for MacMail to add up correctly and for the notification dots to be more visible. Anyone?

Thanks.

Still getting updates and feedback on an OS they have already released?

Not sure that makes sense.

if they are looking for a list of fixes for MacMai I have a list a mile long... who do I send that to?

The current state of the app is just a new batch of horrors.

Thanks!

Thanks, but have been doing so for YEARS and nothing has been done about things like the Prefs dialogue box being too narrow, the Rules list taking ages to open, saving attachments not working automatically... really don't have time to keep posting to Apple on issues that should have been fixed mid-2000s and persist to this day. Gotta get back to work. Thanks.