diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0d834be66..586dbffe3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 
 ### Fixes
 - Make the bots automatically accept group chat contact requests. #4377
+- Fetch at most 100 existing messages even if EXISTS was not received. #4383
 
 ### Fixes
 - jsonrpc: typescript client: fix types of events in event emitter
diff --git a/src/imap.rs b/src/imap.rs
index a82b45a0a..332e51545 100644
--- a/src/imap.rs
+++ b/src/imap.rs
@@ -1324,8 +1324,8 @@ impl Imap {
         // Fetch last DC_FETCH_EXISTING_MSGS_COUNT (100) messages.
         // Sequence numbers are sequential. If there are 1000 messages in the inbox,
         // we can fetch the sequence numbers 900-1000 and get the last 100 messages.
-        let first = cmp::max(1, exists - DC_FETCH_EXISTING_MSGS_COUNT);
-        let set = format!("{first}:*");
+        let first = cmp::max(1, exists - DC_FETCH_EXISTING_MSGS_COUNT + 1);
+        let set = format!("{first}:{exists}");
         let mut list = session
             .fetch(&set, PREFETCH_FLAGS)
             .await