smart mailbox unread counts wrong

Thanks buddy, this worked for me!

RioMacUser's advice worked for me! Also, Metelvis is correct in that you need to be patient and wait after you do RioMacUser's step and fire Mail back up, then decide if it worked or not. When I fired Mail back up I saw no fix, I ended up taking a nap and coming back to my Macbook and all of my mail was there and the unread counts were correct again! It seems that Mavericks and Mail were still busy re-indexing everything.

Adding a rule, Message is in: Inbox, as Fisheye suggested, fixed it for me. Glad I didn't have to rebuild all the indices.

deleting the envelope files worked for me. thanks

This worked for me as well! Just added rule "message is in Inbox".

Thanks Quihana and Fisheye!

/ Joakim

Duplicate reply sry... / J

This solution -- deletion of the "Envelope Index" files -- corrected the unread counts. Yay! Thanks RioMacUser.

On the other hand, the re-indexing resulted in the timestamps being reset to today's date on thousands of emails spanning 20 years. At least I can determine the correct timestamp by looking at the raw source.😮

Bruce Alderson wrote:

I fixed this for my smart mailboxes (Mail.app v7.0 1822) by following these steps:

1. Open a terminal

2. Re-index Spotlight

sudo mdutil -E /

I suspect this is related to Mavericks improvements in Spotlight, as it now indexes Mail.app messages much better than in previous releases.

I usually shy from Terminal but this was simple and totally solved my problem. Thank you!

anyone else try this? i'm nervous with Terminal stuff as i have no idea what i'm doing and reliant on other peoples suggestions...

I'm a bit nervous to post this but it seems like I've resolved my problems with Mail in Mavericks. It was the one-two punch.

1)Reindexing Spotlight by dumping it via terminal. The "Apple Way" via System Preferences didn't work.

1. Open a terminal

2. Re-index Spotlight

sudo mdutil -E /

This did not take very long, maybe an hour and a half. I kept checking the Spotlight magnifying glass to see if it was done.

2) Reindexing & importing all my mail.

This is referred to above as RioMacUser's solution.

Quit Mail

Go to folder ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData

In that folder remove any file that starts with "Envelope Index" It doesn't matter to where.

Restart Mail.

Mail will ask you if you want to import your mail.

Do it.

Wait. Wait. Wait.

In my case I let the process continue for nearly 18 hours. Mail, according to Activity Monitor was still doing something. But in the end I decided it was hung up, so I Force Quit it. What did I have to lose?

When I restared Mail it did not ask me to import again. AND it appeared that all my mailboxes were being populated correctly. Counts were correct. And it seemd to be happening at the speed it had in the past. Whew!

Now two days later I have not had any problems. So far...

I should say that I'd tried each of these solutions before. But not in direct succession.

Just one user's experience. YMMV.

This worked for me! Thanks!!

If you're nervous about using the terminal, try this way through the graphical user interface:

In the Finder, choose the "Go" menu, and the "Go to Folder" menu item.

Then copy and paste this directory location:

~/Library/Mail

Then follow the steps in this link (and use the Mail folder above):

<http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2409>

Then go get a sandwitch, a cup of coffee, or go take a walk - because if you have a lot of mail, it'll take a good 15+ minutes to process.

By the way, if you drag the Envelope Index files to the trash, you may need to restart your computer before you can empty the trash. And you will want to do this before restarting Mail, as Mail may still be using the files in the trash until you empty it.

Thanks for this solution, it took me like 30 mins to rebuild from scratch but that fixed the unread counts problem for me.