1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/mail/rmail.el b/lisp/mail/rmail.el
index 96f9e02816c..27ef3a8e7c1 100644
--- a/lisp/mail/rmail.el
+++ b/lisp/mail/rmail.el
@@ -1789,7 +1789,7 @@ Interactively, empty argument means use same regexp used last time."
              (error "No previous Rmail search string")))
       (list rmail-search-last-regexp
             (prefix-numeric-value current-prefix-arg))))
-  (rmail-search regexp (- (or n -1))))
+  (rmail-search regexp (- (or n 1))))
 
 ;; Show the first message which has the `unseen' attribute.
 (defun rmail-first-unseen-message ()