I just updated to iOS 5.0 on my iphone and when it started up for the first time, all of my emails in a POP account are now showing as unread. The total is 79 emails and I don't want to go one at a time marking each one as read. Is there a way to do it in one sweeping motion?
IOS – How to mark all emails as ‘Read’ after IOS Update 5.0 on iPhone
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I don't believe that it is possible to change the way unread message counts are aggregated. However, you can change your folders so that they are not displayed under your Inbox. That way your Inbox will only show the count for unread message in your Inbox.
On many mail servers, mailboxes are created and stored underneath the Inbox which is what you are seeing.
INBOX
INBOX.Drafts
INBOX.Sent
INBOX.Trash
INBOX.Junk
INBOX.Todo
By changing your account settings in Mail.app, you can specify the IMAP Path Prefix so that Mail will ignore the first part (INBOX) display these folders independently rather than subfolders of the Inbox.
To do this go to Mail -> Preferences -> Account and select the account in the left column. Then select Advanced on the right and you will see a text box to change the IMAP Path Prefix. Typically, you'll want to change this to INBOX, but this will depend on your mail provider (e.g. Google uses [Gmail]) so you may need to check with your provider.
Updating iOS at all on your jailbroken iPhone (including OTA) will break everything. You will not be able to recover your data from the device and you should restore in iTunes. Once restored, restore from your iCloud/iTunes backup if necessary and re-jailbreak.
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Press the Edit button in the top-right corner.
Select all of the emails you want to mark as "read".
Press the Mark button in the bottom-right corner.
Choose Mark as Read