Can't see unread emails in some inboxes in thunderbird (osx mavericks)?

I have used Thunderbird for a while and I have had a constant problem of not being able to read some emails because I can't find them. I have tried restarting, removing the mail account and adding it again but the problem keeps reappearing.

I currently have 32 inboxes and I view them in a unified folder view. It's showing about 32700 messages at the moment. All inboxes are mostly IMAP (I believe a gmail and a yahoo account is POP3) and are mostly from custom installs on linux servers with a few from gmail, yahoo, live.

Looking at one inbox will show for example

someinboxname (2)

Which to means that there are two unread messages, however if I quickfilter for unread messages it will not show any messages which are unread. No matter how I sort the messages or scroll I cannot find the unread messages. I have no problem seeing most of the other new unread messages whether they are in this same inbox or in other inboxes.

I have also noticed that all inboxes emails will not show in the unified inbox. I am having to click on individual inboxes to read these emails.

I am usually the one with all the answers when it comes to computer problems but I have been unable to solve this problem. Any ideas on what I could be doing wrong? Maybe 32 inboxes is too much?

Markus Tenghamn

Posted 2014-07-08T15:37:47.710

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Answers

I had the same issue. It was caused by emails being ignored. See if the mails show up again after you check View -> Threads -> Ignore Threads.

dassmann

Posted 2014-07-08T15:37:47.710

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That seems to have solved it :D – Markus Tenghamn – 2015-02-17T03:28:06.753

I had the same problem. Inbox showing (5) messages unread, but I couldn't see any unread message.

I fond the solution here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/994807

right-click on inbox
Click properties
Click on "Repair Folder"

That made thunderbird to sync again against the imap server and was able to see my unread mails.

Hope it helps

fernando

Posted 2014-07-08T15:37:47.710

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Thanks, the other answers did not work in my case. – PoVa – 2018-03-16T06:23:18.253

Found this on another site. Right click the unified Inbox, and choose the folders to include. Make sure all your inbox folders are checked. Worked for me with a Yahoo address.

Evil Overlord

Posted 2014-07-08T15:37:47.710

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Thanks for the tip but it still does not seem to solve my issue. – Markus Tenghamn – 2014-09-28T08:16:35.147