Rebuilding the Mail

[flyboyy]

I just rebuilt the mail. Prior to doing so i had around 250 emails all read. i also erased all the emails in the trash.

When it finished rebuilding it is showing 1092 emails of which 702 are unread. i have gone through this process three times with somewhat similar results.

Can someone explain what i am doing wrong?

 

[flyboyy]

i just deleted a bunch of emails and then deleted them from the trash and rebuilt Mail and i have 1155 messages in all mailboxes, and 705 unread emails...

 

[flyboyy]

AHA they are all in Protonmail account... The trail is getting warmer.

 

[Randy B. Singer]

I just rebuilt the mail. Prior to doing so i had around 250 emails all read. i also erased all the emails in the trash.

When it finished rebuilding it is showing 1092 emails of which 702 are unread. i have gone through this process three times with somewhat similar results.

Can someone explain what i am doing wrong?

My educated guess is that you have an IMAP account, and that when you rebuild Mail's database, Mail downloads everything that is still on your mail provider's server. This is normal. To fix it for the future, set things to be deleted from the IMAP server after being read, or after a certian number of days after being read.

 

[pm-r]

My educated guess is that you have an IMAP account,

Good point and probably the correct answer for the problem and as a POP email account user I keep forgetting that the IMAP email accounts for differently especially after a rebuild.



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