I also have run into the symptom of a negative unread message count. In my case, it was in the Mail Trash.
I have preferences set up to empty the mail trash on quit. I noticed a few days ago that the Mail Trash folder was boldfaced (indicating unread messages) even when I just started PowerMail, presumably indicating that there were unread messages in the folder when it should have been empty. Yesterday morning, I also noticed that there were '0 messages, -1 unread' in my Mail Trash. I restarted PowerMail with Command-Option pressed, and tried the top couple of options, reserving the low-level rebuild until later. That 'fixed' the counting problem, so that my Mail Trash showed '0 messages, 0 unread', but the title of the folder was still boldfaced. When I chose Special/Empty Mail Trash, the title of the Mail Trash folder reverted to normal text. Powerbook 1400cs/117, Mac OS 8.61, 64MB RAM, VM on -- Don V. Zahniser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
