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Filtering Thunderbird for Starred Mail

This little tip just changed my life… I swear. I’ve been looking FOR-EV-ER for a way to filter my Thunderbird Inbox so that I see only the “starred” messages. Despite my poking and prodding and searching I couldn’t figure out how until today.

When you’re building your filter/custom view/folder criteria, “starred” is not an option in the first drop down (like Flag, Tags, and Junk Status are). Additionally, despite the fact that the mail server knows all about whether a message is “starred” or not, it’s not in the header of the email either

In Thunderbird, Starred is a STATUS!

That’s right, a STATUS. Drop the first box down and select “Status”, drop the second box down and select “is”, then drop the third box down and select “Starred”. That’s it, you’re done.

10 Comments

  1. Tom says:

    Thank you Thank you Thank you

  2. Daniel says:

    Thank you Thank you Thank you! Seriously!

    1. Jim Reverend says:

      Glad I could help.

  3. Andrew says:

    That is amazing. Thank you! (Gosh, it’s so simple now that you explain it…)

  4. Dpig says:

    Awesome, thanks! Stars are finally USEFUL!

  5. Kaz says:

    Thank you, that helped a lot :)

  6. Kaz says:

    Thank you, that helped a lot :)

  7. Colin says:

    Thanks! I had been trying to figure this out!

  8. Anamaria says:

    Just wanted to add my thanks. Trying to figure this out was driving me crazy, but I never thought to look under 'Status'. Thanks!

  9. Scott says:

    Great tip! I almost got there, but gave up before discovering the Status->Starred treasure.

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