Why is mail such a mystery...

[TinyDee]

I was gone a few weeks and now my the mail on my Imac shows 1530 messages in the dock. I have tried to erase everything, tried to say all is read and nothing helps. What have I done wrong? And how to fix it?

 

[RollTide]

I was gone a few weeks and now my the mail on my Imac shows 1530 messages in the dock. I have tried to erase everything, tried to say all is read and nothing helps. What have I done wrong? And how to fix it?

After doing all that, have you restarted it?

 

[iMikeT]

I was gone a few weeks and now my the mail on my Imac shows 1530 messages in the dock. I have tried to erase everything, tried to say all is read and nothing helps. What have I done wrong? And how to fix it?

Don't bother with it. Just think to yourself that you are an important enough person to have 1530 people email you personally.

 

[BrianBaughn]

What type of email account is it?

 

[S.B.G]

Did you close the Mail app after marking them read and then start it up again?

 

[michael.lauden]

If it's a POP account - it can send all your messages to your mail account like they've never been 'read' before - because technically with POP - they haven't.

Try setting up your account again and providing more information to us here on the forums if you still have a problem.

 

[TinyDee]

Okay, this is the mail that came on the IMac. it was fine until I was gone a few weeks and now has this troubling number, 1515 at the moment on top of the icon. I just do not know what to do. The POP was an interesting read but how do you access it and delete or show as read? Or can you? It is a jungle out there for me.....HELP!