Mail count on Mail icon doesn't reset

The same thing is happening to me. Reboot doesn't solve the problem.

Thanks for the input but that's not the problem on my end. From the desktop computer, I'm able to confirm that both of my email accounts are empty of unread mail, yet the icon count on the iPad reads 6. To further confirm, the iPhone icon reads 0. I'd like to leave this thread "unresolved."

iOS$ for the phone has: "See messages from all your accounts in a unified inbox." I would expect the iOS4 for the iPad to have same feature.

Papawill wrote:
I found the problem. I have a second email account. Messages were piling up in that account. Apparently the inbox shows mail from only one account at a time. That's something Apple needs to fix.

Not sure this is the fix for you either, but I had a message count that drifted upward by 1 or 2 each month until I declared ware on the problem.

Even though I don't sync e-mail through MobileMe, I found my mysterious 38 e-mail sitting in my MobileMe InBox. Once deleted, both Windows & iPad quit reporting the Mystery Mail!


RJ

OK, I found the fix (sort of). I have two accounts, both synced through iTunes. The .me account responds to the status of read or not-read mail, regardless of where the activity took place--the computer, iPad, iPhone, etc. The other, a non Apple account, does not. So when mail from the other account is read and/or deleted from another source, the iPhone mail icon badge will reflect the changes but the iPad mail icon badge will not. So the fix is really not a true fix. I disabled the non Apple account on the iPad. I'm sure that supporting non Apple accounts is not high on their priority list but, hopefully, this will be resolved in a future update.

It's not a question of 'non-Apple' accounts, or 'resolving in a future update'.
Your issue is almost certainly because your non-Apple account is POP, and MobileMe is IMAP.
POP accounts are not synced between devices, whereas IMAP accounts are.

It's not something that Apple 'need to fix'. It's feature of the OS. That will change 'in the fall' when iOS4 is released for the iPad. Then you'll get a unified Inbox.

Thanks. That explains why I don't have this problem on the iPhone 3Gs. (Reminds me of the old days when we used to explain, "It's not a bug, its a feature.")