Number of items in a mail folder

Hi Goxlet!

"There has to be a better way to see how many messages exist in a Mail folder..."

There certainly is! Just select any mailbox on the right in Mail´s main window and look to the top of the window, where a consistently updated number of mails in the selected mailbox is shown. Make sure the mailbox sidebar is visible by going to the "View" menu in Mail. In the screenshot (sorry about the German, but everything´s in the same place in English versions of macOS!) you can see I´ve selected a mail folder called "UK" that I created, and at the top it shows me that there are currently 81 mails in the folder. It´s sometimes easy to miss such details in Sierra´s GUI...👿 !! Hope this helps you! Cheers, Ian.

“The issue I have with the number of e-mails specified in parenthesis is that it appears beside the name of the account with nothing that refers to the selected folder. That's quite misleading in my opinion.”

Yes, that certainly could be misleading if that were the case in my setup, but unfortunately I can´t duplicate this issue using Mail 10.2 in Sierra!

I don´t use the tab bar in Mail but that´s just me. But for a second screenshot I activated it, and as you see the number of mails in the selected folder, again the one called “UK”, is displayed both at the top of the window and in the tab bar, with the selected folder´s name to the left, not the account´s name;

Unless I´ve completely misunderstood you this is surely what you want to see?! Mail shouldn´t be showing anything different when you select a mailbox from the right hand sidebar, but if it is perhaps post a screenshot so I can see exactly what you mean!!

Goxlet,

Right-click on the "Inbox," select "Get Account Info."

You can then choose Account>Quota Limits...which displays Mailbox/Message/Size

Thank you, you´re welcome! Perhaps send Apple some feedback about this:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/