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Quick Fix for Gmail IMAP-Mail Issues

For those of you who use Gmail IMAP in Mail as I do, you are probably just as annoyed with one thing- the new messages counter always reads twice the actual number. This is because the message is sent to both your inbox and the folder titled “Gmail” or “All Mail”. Just put the following into Script Editor, and voila!

tell application “Mail”  set unreadBox to mailbox “[Gmail]/All Mail” of account “Gmail IMAP”  set unreadCount to unread count of unreadBox  if unreadCount is not 0 then    repeat unreadCount times      set unreadMail to first message of unreadBox whose read status is false      set read status of unreadMail to true    end repeat  end ifend tell