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Mac OS X Dock Icon Unread Count Incorrect
For the last two days I have noticed that the dock icon for Postbox in OSX (10.5.6) does not report the correct unread count i.e. it doesn't match the account unread count in the program window. 
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Inappropriate?And again this morning. Note '5' on the dock icon while there are '8' (correct number)
in the inbox.
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Inappropriate?I second this issue. I'm running beta 3, and 10.5.6
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Inappropriate?Has postbox acknowledged this problem yet? I've seen it mentioned at least 4 or 5 times since Beta4 has come out.
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Inappropriate?The dock icon currently counts the # of new messages since biff last went off. This is different from the # of unread messages shown at the account level.
I think there's another thread here somehwere that breaks this down in more detail. Sounds like a lot of mail.app users expect it to be an unread count in the dock.4 Comments Add a comment
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what if you are away from your desk for a couple hours and it refreshes 3 times grabbing new mail on the 1st and 2nd refresh, and on the third time there is no new mail. If you don't cycle back to your mail client you may miss the fact that there is new mail waiting for you.
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Scott, can you please elaborate on what you mean by "since biff last went off."
If the dock count shows me the total number of new messages since last time I viewed my inbox, then I might be okay with it (but not absolutely certain).
However, if the dock count only shows the number of new messages since Postbox last checked the server, then it is pretty much useless to anyone who doesn't sit slavishly at their computer watching the dock.
I would prefer to have the option to choose what the dock icon counts e.g. all unread, unread in inbox only, etc. -
"Sounds like a lot of mail.app users expect it to be an unread count in the dock." Gmail works the same way. What number of messages you haven't read is quite often what people want to know. ^___^
Besides, right now my gmail account in postbox is continuously telling me I always have 398 unread messages, even though the app's interface is indicating that everything is read. So right now, the badge is just confusirationating me. -
I think this is one of those areas that don't need to be reinvented. Everyone expects that icon to report unread count.
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Inappropriate?Looks like we have enough information for this issue, and we've logged a bug on it at Postbox. Thanks for the feedback!
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Inappropriate?I am having this as well, it started after restoring my machine with Time Machine, opening Mail again caused a flurry of activity downloading some really old messages from my POP accounts, after which I marked them all as 'read' or deleted them. Still upon restart Mail thinks I have a number of unreads which don't exist
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Inappropriate?Hey guys, check out the latest Postbox beta which fixes this. We now show the unread message count in the system dock!
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Inappropriate?actually. after noticing some issues i found this in your release notes "Only show the unread count of the Inbox in the dock (Mac only)"
Um. is there an option to show total unread for an account? Some of us do server side filtering and i need to know when mail comes into folders besides the inbox as well. But only for certain accounts really.
*Cough*Dock Star*Cough*
Having the total unread count in the Dock is a huge step in the right direction. I greatly appreciate that.
Being able to have a different badge on the dock for each account would be super hot. And even better, being able to assign that badge to the undead count of, say, a saved search would be incredible.
If we could set individual unread count badges to a saved search we could do all the work of which folders are included in the unread count for that badge (thus, using the tools already available).
So ... Multiple dock badges, say up to 4 or 5, that can be assigned to an accounts inbox OR the unread count of a saved search. Oh, i think that would be a great way to take advantage of current tools plus provide more functionality.
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Inappropriate?mbond, does mail.app let you customize which folders show up in the dock for the unread count?
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Inappropriate?It shows the unread count for all the folders by default. The 3rd party plugin dockstar gives it the abilityvto show the unread count for folders (and their child folders)...
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Inappropriate?For further clarification, Mail allows the following options for the dock unread count:
- inbox only
- all mailboxes
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Inappropriate?Mine isn't showing ANY badges at all in the dock!!!
I can't find the preference to activate this.
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