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Is there a way to show that there are starred items in one account? Or some other way of doing what I need?

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I (obviously) have all of my accounts shown on the left side of the page, but there's no way that I can find to show that I have starred items in any one of them. I just had to migrate from Eudora; in that program I was able to look at my combined inbox and know which emails I'd saved (sometimes for months) for when they become necessary. I simply marked them unread and they were at the top of my list. If I mark them unread in Thunderbird, I won't know which accounts have new emails and which have ones I've saved for later. If I star the saved ones, I have no way of knowing which accounts have these saved ones.

I have another question here asking if there's a way to combine inboxes; this would alleviate the problem. If there isn't, I'm trying to find some other way of being able to see these without going into each of my accounts separately.

I (obviously) have all of my accounts shown on the left side of the page, but there's no way that I can find to show that I have starred items in any one of them. I just had to migrate from Eudora; in that program I was able to look at my ''combined ''inbox and know which emails I'd saved (sometimes for months) for when they become necessary. I simply marked them unread and they were at the top of my list. If I mark them unread in Thunderbird, I won't know which accounts have new emails and which have ones I've saved for later. If I star the saved ones, I have no way of knowing which accounts have these saved ones. I have another question here asking if there's a way to combine inboxes; this would alleviate the problem. If there isn't, I'm trying to find some other way of being able to see these without going into each of my accounts separately.

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The Quick Filter Bar (Ctrl+Shift+K) has a Starred button to show only the starred messages in a folder (see picture).

Combine inboxes by setting View/Folders to Unified. To create a virtual folder that combines a specific set of folders, make a saved search from File/New...

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The Quick Filter Bar (Ctrl+Shift+K) has a Starred button to show only the starred messages in a folder (see picture).

Combine inboxes by setting View/Folders to Unified. To create a virtual folder that combines a specific set of folders, make a saved search from File/New...

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Thank you soooo much, sfhowes! I'd previously made the unified folder; but, because of the way it lined up in the list of folders with all of the rest showing, I didn't realize that it actually had done what I wanted.