IMAP would be showing individual messages, while the webmail view would typically be the number of conversations. Also, IMAP would probably show everything from every label, while the inbox view might only be the ones with the inbox label.
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Mike Karina <[email protected]> wrote: > Working on a high profile user and a bit frustrated as I cannot figure out > why his inbox is showing so many items. It is Outlook 2013 and Gmail is > configured via imap. He is showing 7300 inbox items (7100 unreads) but > through the webmail gmail I'm showing 1303 items total and 1200 unread. > > I've deleted the PST (OST) multiple times and each time it caches the same > 7000+ items in the inbox. I've got several other subfolders (labels) in > gmail that appear to download full headers correctly. Unsure if it is > grouping some of these subfolders into the main inbox count or not. > > Any have any ideas? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
