By default, Outlook displays the number of unread messages on most Mail folders. That’s handy on the “Inbox” folder, but what if you want to know how many total messages (unread and read) there are in other folders, such as the “Deleted Items” folder or? It could be helpful to know when you get so many messages in your “Deleted Items” folder that you should empty it, or how many messages are in your custom “Pending Reply” folder waiting for you to take action and send replies. You can change which Mail folders show unread messages and which show total messages. We’ll show you how. NOTE: The “Drafts” and “Junk E-mail” folders, as well as the “For Follow-Up” Search folder (if you’ve ), show the total number of messages by default. We discuss how to change additional settings for the “Junk E-mail” folder in our article about.

Outlook For Mac Showing Unread Emails

Unread messages on a Mail folder display as a bold, blue number next to the folder name, as shown below. We’ll leave the “Inbox” folder displaying the unread message count, but we’ll change the “Deleted Items” folder to display the total message count to remind us to empty that folder once in a while. To do this, right-click on the “Deleted Items” folder (or a Mail folder of your choosing) and select “Properties” from the popup menu. The “Properties” dialog displays for the selected folder.

On the “General” tab, select the “Show total number of items” radio button and click “OK”. Nsf viewer for mac. The “Deleted Items” folder now show the total number of messages, both read and unread, in the folder, rather than the number of unread messages. When you change the message count setting for a folder in your “Favorites”, the change applies to the folder in both places: the “Favorites” and the Mail folder list.

How to change theme in word for mac. NOTE: You cannot change the message count property for multiple Mail folders at the same time. You must change it one folder at a time.

Important: When you delete a Search Folder, the email messages shown in the Search Folder are not deleted because those items are never saved, only viewed, in a Search Folder. However, if you open or select one or more email messages shown in a Search Folder and delete the email messages, the messages are deleted from the Microsoft Outlook folder where they are stored. The Unread Mail folder is one of the predefined Search Folders.

Go to the folder that displays the unread count. Type 'read:no' in the search bar. (Ctrl-E if you can't find the search bar). If no results show up, click on 'Find more on the server' link. This will search for unread emails from the server and display the unread emails. Jun 19, 2012  My iPhone shows the correct unread message count as well as Outlook Web Access, and on a seperate windows-based computer, Outlook is showing the correct unread message count of 3. Both Mac systems are using OS X 10.7.3 and I have never experienced this issue before.

Outlook for mac unread emails

If you don't see this folder under Search Folders in the Navigation Pane, you can.