How to clean up flagged email in Mac

Recently, I keep finding a large number of previously flagged emails in my Flagged folder with no flag icon on the entries. The entries show up at the bottom of the list. Functionally, it is not too much trouble but it is just annoying the count on Flagged email is always wrong.

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After some experiments, I found a solution. The steps are:

  1. Open an email you want to remove from the Flagged folder. Find out which folder the email is in.
  2. Click on the folder the email is in to select it.
  3. Select menu item Mailbox | Rebuild.
  4. Repeat steps 1-3 on any unflagged email in Flagged folder until all of them are removed.

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Hope this helps. Good luck!

Poon