Phantom unread emails: Mail shows 5 unread messages, but there are none...

I've tried marking all read. Doesn't work. It doesn't select ALL 8000 messages in that mailbox. It marks 50, which is what the phone caches (due to the setting).

Tried force quitting Mail, disabling affected accounts, power down, power up, reenable affected accounts, launch mail. SOME mail gets fixed. Not all.

In fact, after doing that several times, an account that hadn't had problems started having problems.

Mail is seriously messed up on iOS7. Its ability to handle simple IMAP and POP3 functions is severely flawed.

Ok know what the problem is but no idea if I can fix it or if it's the mail server. Have tried all of the above and it a only a temporary fix. I have seen this before and it seemed to eventually work itself out, but before I was able to see the phantom emails on my iPad and iMac, however I still could not access or delete them. This time they are hidden but I managed to get them too show up if I type in no sender into the mail box search "no sender". They flash only briefly on the left side and then disappear. You can clearly see the blue dot showing unread status and the date of 12/31/69 and they read:

12/31/69

No sender

No subject

This message has no content

I was going to post the picture I managed to snap with my iPad (flashes up so briefly it took awhile to catch it flashing by) but it won't let me paste here, maybe it will later on my iMac

Advice about the emails from 1969?

It must be obvious by now it's an iOS 7 thing as this was not an issue before the upgrade. Patience my friend there will be a fix in a soon to come update. Seeing the little red numbers of notification (and not being able to erase them...) does however continue bug me.

For me it seems to be iphone specific after the IOS7 upgrade, I have numerous accounts on my iphone and the phantom unread mail app banner is on my defaulty account. However my mac book pro and my mac and my webmail site for the IMAP account in question all do not report the emails to be unread.

I was able to fix my gmail problem quickly with these tips:

Select the mail folder (sent, trash, etc) & go to Edit, Select All

Then go to Message, Mark, As Read

This removed all the emails that were showing as Unread.

I think I may have a suggestion Ive just had the same issue with a yahoo account, what I did was send myself a email,

1) goto email in question dont open it just go to edit then mark all as read.

2) goto to same email again and the set to mark all as unread.

3) then goto email again and edit mark all as read.

That worked for me and cleared the ghost email.

Messed up the markup code...

Also, to clarify further, the ghost e-mails appeared after I had marked a read e-mail as 'unread' in my Inbox. There might be different causes for different users (and consequently, different solutions).

10/3/14 This morning...all of a sudden my Verizon email inbox was showing two unread emails and there were none. I am on a MacBook Pro...which I don't know if matters...for me the solution was simple...I held down the control key...clicked on the pad which brought a drop down menu down.....selected marked all email read....and that cleared it....the end of the problem....

got excited there for a minute - but alas - did not work for me 😟

Awesome, it worked, thanks much!! 🙂

When you go to mail, there is absolutely a green button you turn off. then restart your phone, then go back and turn the green button on.

all your phantom emails will be gone.

this worked for me also - but I didn't have to shut down phone.

Just turned email off and then back on.

Thanks,

I had this problem recently too.

For me it was a problematic of where my 'unread' emails were. They were in a subfolder (not in inbox) which I haven't checked in months.

So maybe u should also check all other folders ( in the left side - bottom)