Whenever I "get mail" the bar at the bottom tells me anything up to 20 messages are incoming although only two or three actually appear in my inbox. What is happening? Am I being filled with malware? Am I being used as a netbot? When I check the host webmail, there are no extra messages not in my inbox. I am running Snowleopard on my macbook.
Macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.2)
How about any of the other mailboxes like Junk? Do you have rules to send mail that satisfies those rules into other mailboxes? Spam filtering could be sending mail to the Junk mailbox.
Thanks for that thought, but no, I always check the junk folders as well just in case. Cae in point, when Apple forwarded your reply just now, the bar told me 8 messages were coming in, but actually this was the only one. I have no idea what happened to the other 7. I've only had this issue since using Snow Leopard. I've run Cleanmymac since in case that showed something up, but apparently no.
Thanks for the reply, anyway. Anyone else?
I've seen Mail get it's counter screwed before. Try rebuilding the mail box (Mail Mailbox menu-->Rebuild).
Thanks for that thought. I tried it, and promptly got a whole load of emails from the last 2 years popping back into my inbox. I had to wait unti la fresh batch was coming in, but then found the problem was still there - it announced 6 incoming emails, only one of which got as far as my inbox. Still wondering if I'm being used as part of a botnet or worse.
Check your Mail preferences --> General --> Dock unread count. It gives you a choice of "None", "Inbox Only", or "All Mailboxes". I assume you have it set to "All Mailboxes". Change it to "Inbox Only".
Thanks for that thought - alas, it is already set to "inbox only', so no change I'm afraid. I do appreciate all your suggestions. Does anyone else get this problem?
Heh, google "incorrect Mail message count in dock" or that same topic just for these forums.
Invisible rogue mails coming in
