Email: Incorrect notifications count in Edison Mail
The notifications count in Edison Mail is inaccurate, leading to user frustration. Additionally, users are experiencing issues with the search function and slow syncing, compounding their dissatisfaction with the app.
6 different people have complained about this since 25 Sept 2026, most recently on 25 Sept 2026.
- “Even after contacting support a long time ago, it’s been an ongoing problem for me, and very annoying.”
- “The badge counter does not work correctly.”
- “*SEARCH function totally useless and broken, seems to do a complete wildcard search query rather than the actual WORDS and STRING I'm looking at.”
6 people in 6 posts across 1 source · demand low, pain moderate, competition low
The pain
shares of 6 quoted postsWhat goes wrong, and for whom
- Who
- 6 people using Email - Edison Mail
- What goes wrong
- Doesn't work17% of posts
- How bad
- 100% of posts are complaints · pain score moderate (43/100)
- Since
- 25 Sept 2026 → 25 Sept 2026
Is this a startup idea?
Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use — the fix belongs first to that provider.
- Complaints are about
- Email - Edison Mail
- Looking for something else
- 0% want an alternative · 0% ask the provider for a feature
- What the numbers say
- Almost nobody is looking for a different product — people want this provider to fix it, not a new option.
The pain — what people say
Their asks, who is writing, and the posts themselves
What people were doing
Every post behind this page, by what its author was doing — and when each one was written
- Complaint6100%
Sources
6 signals · 1 sources
Evidence
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…showing the wrong number of new, unread emails has never been fixed. Even after contacting support a long time ago, it’s been an ongoing problem for me, and very annoying. Hopefully it gets fixed someday.
FrustratedEmail - Edison Mail — Badge counter The badge counter does not work correctly. I can check and read all my emails and the badge with clear, showing no messages. I go back a few minutes later and the icon badge shows 55, the number it currently seems to be stuck on. I open the app, there is no emails, the counter…
Doesn't workEmail - Edison Mail — Long-standing issues still not fixed *SEARCH function totally useless and broken, seems to do a complete wildcard search query rather than the actual WORDS and STRING I'm looking at. Who is developing this app?!? It now keeps asking if I want to block calls from random emails? why? Other issues…
Email - Edison Mail — Notifications count is wrong I have several email accounts configured and since about 1-2 months ago, I am seeing the notification badge count on the app being wrong. As emails come in it would say for example “10” on the notification badge but it’s actually 2-3 emails. Seems like a weird bug
Email - Edison Mail — Disappointing — Slow to receive email and badge count is minutes behind sometimes not even updating at all. I set up my Exchange account on this and the standard iOS Mail app to compare. I've gone back to the iOS version.
Market and score
Products already there, how the score moved, and what it is made of
Opportunity history
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Why did it move?
Score 37.6 → 39.6 · 09 Oct 2026, 18:00 → 19:15 UTC
How the score was measured39 measured values behind the seven sub-scores · each shows the value, then the points it earned out of 100Show ↓Hide ↑
Questions about this idea
- Is Incorrect notifications count in Edison Mail a startup idea?
- Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use, and the fix belongs first to that provider. The page shows what is frustrating users and how badly — not an open market to start a company in.
- How many people have this problem?
- 6 different people described it independently, in 6 mentions, the earliest from 25 Sept 2026 and the most recent from 25 Sept 2026. The quotes, with dates and links to the originals, are in the Evidence section.
- Is this problem getting worse?
- Current status: stable — mentioned at a steady rate. Momentum is 42/100, measured as how often it is mentioned recently compared with before.
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