hi,

i use getmail and mailfilter to fetch and split my mail in maildir
folders.

all unsorted mail (mostly spam) arrives to inbox, and then i delete
almolst everything.

in the last weeks, the inbox folder worked strangely: selecting inbox
with no unread messages but with, let's say, 20 old messages, it asked
me for how many old messages i wanted to read, defaulting to more than
thousand, and then it showed the old messages.

few days ago i deleted all messages in inbox, and now, in the group
buffer, when i get new news, i see: 1545: inbox.

i then select inbox and it says that there are no unread news; i
select inbox again to see old messages, it hasks how many, default
1680, and then: no unread messages (mutt can read it, there are 24
messages).

i tried deleting ~/Mail/inbox/.nnmaildir/, but without effects.

why is happening this, and how can i fix it?

thanks

pietro