Outlook 2007: Show the Total Number of Items in a Mail Folder
Contributed by Rob Rogers 
Tagged: Microsoft Outlook Outlook’s Navigation Pane, by default, shows the number of unread items in each Mail Folder. You can change each folder to instead show the total number of items in that mail folder. This is a great way to get a feel of how much email you are actually holding on to. It also is quite useful for monitoring how many messages are in your Deleted Items and Sent Items folders.
1. Go to the Mail Folders in the Navigation Pane.
2. Right-click on a folder, for example Inbox or Deleted Items.
3. Select Properties.
4. On the General tab, beneath the Description memo box, select Show total number of items.
5. Click OK.
Repeat these steps for each mail folder that is to display the total number of items within it.
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Joe Jackson said on December 14, 2008
Hello. After deleting all items in the “deleted” folder, there is a number in brackets after the “deleted Items” folder. However, when I open the folder, there is nothing there.
hugh said on February 27, 2009
Is there any way to change this permaneantly for every folder?
Chris said on April 27, 2010
Is there a way to get this information for an entire archive or .pst folder? For instance, can I get the total number of mails stored in each subfolder of an archive as an aggregate total?
saravanan said on October 13, 2011
This is not working for newly created PST.