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I have set up a Gmail filter that marks all incoming mail from a certain mailing list with a star. Right now, the filter automatically applies the standard yellow star. How can I set it to use the blue star instead?

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It doesn't look possible. The Filter tool only gives an option to add a star, not which star to use. – Al Everett Oct 6 '11 at 15:16
Heh, if it had been as easy as using a dropdown in the filter setup menu, I wouldn't have had to ask. I was hoping there was an advanced setting somewhere that I had missed, but I'm not holding out much hope. – Lord Torgamus Oct 6 '11 at 15:22
Yeah, me too. Maybe when the extra stars graduate out of the Labs. – Al Everett Oct 6 '11 at 16:05
If only! The extra stars (AKA "Superstars") graduated back in May‌​. At least looking up that blog post reminded me to check out nested labels, so I got something out of this question. – Lord Torgamus Oct 6 '11 at 16:12
Ugh. You're right. I'm behind the times. – Al Everett Oct 6 '11 at 16:14
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Sorry, we do not currently have functionality that allows you to use different kinds of stars with filters.

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Accepted because the OP is the Community Manager for Gmail. – Lord Torgamus Oct 10 '11 at 19:25
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I was googling for the syntax and saw this question wrongly answered.

All of the superstars are supported and have been for quite a while:

  • has:yellow-star - Messages with a yellow star.
  • has:red-bang - Messages with a red exclamation mark.
  • has:yellow-bang - Messages with a yellow exclamation mark.
  • has:purple-question - Messages with a purple question mark.
  • has:orange-guillemet - Messages with two orange forward arrows.
  • has:blue-info - Messages with a blue i.
  • has:red-star - Messages with a red star.
  • has:orange-star - Messages with an orange star.
  • has:green-star - Messages with a green star.
  • has:blue-star - Messages with a blue star.
  • has:purple-star - Messages with a purple star.

For what it's worth, I tried a complex search using the blue-info and it did not work properly, but when I switched to a red-bang it did work. I don't know how well it works... I wanted to perform a search for items from a certain sender that were not starred, and it definitely didn't work for the blue-info!

But... for basic and compound searches this should work extremely well!

If you should happen to find that any of the syntax I copied is wrong, please let me know so I can update it.

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I actually briefly accepted this answer before I realized you answered the wrong question. You're right that you can use this syntax to search for questions, but you can't use it for setting up filters. The filter menu -- which has changed since I originally asked this question -- still only gives a single "Star it" checkbox, not a dropdown menu or anything like that. – Lord Torgamus Sep 28 '12 at 4:10

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