Is that status bar also showing one or more message not downloaded? If
you aren't seeing the status bar enable it in View, Layout.

There's a bug/quirk in OE often referred to as "Ghost Messages", where
OE thinks there are some messages on the news server that it can't
download. Once it hits a newsgroup, it seems to slowly increase the
number of messages. It seems to take the news server administrator to
rebuild in the server indexes for the problem to go away.

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"John Selph" wrote in message
news:z8kJg.3986$B14.2939@dukeread03...
Thanks for the replies. My problem just started recently whereas the
group details under Folders shows unread messages, but there are no
unread messages in the messages pane. I have had isolated occurrences
of this in the past, but every group I subscribe to is now showing
unread messages. I have synced all groups, set sync to All Messages,
have no rules or ignored users. I've increased the message downloads
to 500 and even after using Catch up on all groups, the next sync will
most likely show unread messages.

TIA,

John

"John Selph" wrote in message
news:TGjJg.3983$B14.531@dukeread03...
Is there an FAQ for this group? I'm trying to resolve a problem
using OE6 as newsreader.
Thanks,
John