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Mail.app - smart folder/flagged message count?

I started looking for this and so far no dice...

Is there a way to have a count of the messages in a Smart Folder?
Just the message count, flagged or not, read or not.
Just a pure message count.
Like what Outlook does with its Search Folders, you can check a box that displays the message count.

It would be nice if beside the Smart Folder it would display the number of messages in it.

Any ways to do this?

TOPICS: Mac OS X
Evan's picture

Ironman, I spent quite a while...

Ironman,

I spent quite a while looking for a way to do this too, and it doesn't seem to be possible.

What I did instead was use Mail Act-On :D to send the message to a specific folder (in this case "Reply To") and mark it as unread. That way I always know if there is something in the "Reply To" folder -- the unread count would appear next to it. In truth the messages were read, but marked as unread for the purpose of viewing the count.

It's not ideal, but the only way I've been able to get a message count.

 
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