Apple Mail’s notification badge cracks a joke
A German Mac user has posted what he says is a screenshot of
I’ve never seen this myself. I wonder what level of negligence is required before you see it.
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Tags: Apple Mail, Apple Mail Trivia, badge, email, joke, mail.app, notification, unread emails

November 28th, 2005 at 3:41 am
Based on how wide the badge image resources get, I’m assuming you’d have to pass 9,999 unread.
November 8th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
I had somewhere north of 120,000 unread when it flipped to ‘lots’ for me – my mail crashed, couldn’t recover and am currently at 71,824… will keep my eye to see just when it happens