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Starred

Since 1.13.0 the sidebar has a Starred view: every message you have starred, across every account, newest first. The star itself is not new — it has been in the message list since the first release. What was missing was any way to read it back.

What this solves

Starring a message wrote \Flagged to your mail server and nothing in SkimMail ever asked for it again. You could mark mail to come back to, and then you could not find it. A marker you can set and never retrieve is not a feature, and this is the smallest honest fix: one view that lists what you marked.

Where it is

Sidebar ▸ Starred, directly under Snoozed. It is also in the command palette — press ⌘K and type starred (or flagged, or marked).

The view is exclusive with Snoozed: opening one closes the other. Only one special view can be open at a time, because "snoozed and starred" is not a question the list can answer.

How starring works

  • Hover a row in the message list. The date at the right of the row is replaced by three buttons — pin, star, select — and the middle one is the star. There is no star button in the reading pane; the star-shaped button in the reading toolbar is VIP, which marks the sender, not the message. See Muted and VIP senders.
  • The star is written to your mail server first — it is the standard IMAP \Flagged flag — and only then mirrored onto the cached row. If the server refuses the write, nothing changes locally either; you do not end up with a star that only SkimMail believes in.
  • Because it is a real IMAP flag, it is shared with your other mail clients. Star something in Thunderbird, Apple Mail or the Gmail web interface and it shows up here after SkimMail next syncs that mailbox; un-star it there and it disappears from this view the same way.

What the view contains

Every cached message that carries the star, from every account you own, in every folder SkimMail has cached, sorted newest first.

Two consequences worth knowing:

  • It is not filtered the way the inbox is. A starred message that you also snoozed, or that comes from a sender you muted, still appears here. That is deliberate: when you open the list of things you marked to come back to, the one you hid from your inbox is exactly the one you are looking for.
  • Archived and deleted mail is not here. Those actions move the message on the mail server and drop the cached row, so it leaves this view with everything else. The star survives on the server; SkimMail no longer has the message to list.

Limits
Available since 1.13.0
Scope your own accounts only
Sort newest first, fixed
Paging none — the view returns the whole list
Per-account filter none
  • There is no "Load more", because there is no page: the view returns everything starred in one response. On a mailbox where thousands of messages are flagged, that is a large response and a long list.
  • The bundle filter and the tag filter do not apply while the view is open; the filter row is hidden.
  • Multi-select works normally — you can select rows here and mark read, archive, delete or mute the senders — but there is no bulk un-star. Stars come off one at a time.
  • With nothing starred, the empty state is the generic "Inbox zero" one — fixed in 1.14.0. In 1.13.0 an empty Starred view congratulated you on an empty inbox and offered a Sync button that could not help; it now says there is nothing starred yet.
  • Screenshot-safe mode applies here exactly as it does to any other list.

What it does not do

  • It does not create a folder on your mail server. Nothing is moved or copied; this is a view over what SkimMail already has.
  • It is not a saved search. There are no criteria to edit and nothing to name — it is the one fixed question "what did I star?".
  • It does not separate accounts. Everything you own is in one list; if you want one mailbox's stars only, there is no control for that in this release.
  • It does not show mail outside your sync window. A message flagged years ago that SkimMail never fetched is not in the cache, so it cannot be listed. See SYNC_DEPTH_DAYS in Configuration.

See also

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