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From: Michelle Steiner <foo@bar.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Naive question about Mail - or mailers
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 08:13:03 -0700
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In article <jccw-40BAD8.23320505112013@mx05.eternal-september.org>,
John White <jccw@comcast.net> wrote:

> In article <051120131749534777%foo@bar.com>,
>  Michelle Steiner <foo@bar.com> wrote:
> 
> > In article <051120131121075149%foo@bar.com>, Michelle Steiner
> > <foo@bar.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Other than G-mail problems are there any new problems (i.e., problems
> > > that didn't exist in Mountain Lion) with mail.app in Mavericks?
> > 
> > Actually, I found one:  the mail icon on the Dock never shows the badge
> > indicating the number of unread messages, at least on my system it
> > doesn't.
> 
> That feature works just fine for me.

I had a hunch that it was not a universal problem because I haven't
seen anyone else complain about it.

I had Dockstar installed, but it's not compatible with Mavericks, and
will not be upgraded for 10.9 or later; even though I had uninstalled
Dockstar, I suspect that there's something left over that's affecting
the mail.app badge.

[later]  I just removed some lingering Dockstar files that the
uninstaller didn't catch, then relaunched mail.app; it didn't help. 
Next step is to log out and log back in.