GMAIL app inbox question...

[Blazer]

GMAIL inbox... I understand the small "chevron" symbols to the left of the sender's name...

2 chevrons indicates that the email was sent to you directly
1 chevron means that you were "cc" on the email
no chevron means that you were part of a "group" send

However, I can not determine why the chevrons are yellow on some email and gray on others.

 

[cjsmoove]

I would like to know this as well..

 

[mikesmith]

The yellow ones are marked as "important".

Select the email then go to more options (the three squares) and you can either mark as important or remove it.

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[walcolm]

the gmail app behaves like you desktop gmail

 

[smitty0255]

actually, the arrows (>>) are the personal level indicators

1 (>) means sent to your email address among others.
2 (>>) means sent only to you.
0 means bcc or group mailing list.

like mikesmith said, the yellow / grey differentiates between "important" and "not important" for the priority inbox functions.

 

[Mike1951]

actually, the arrows (>>) are the personal level indicators

1 (>) means sent to your email address among others.
2 (>>) means sent only to you.
0 means bcc or group mailing list.

like mikesmith said, the yellow / grey differentiates between "important" and "not important" for the priority inbox functions.

I know I'm resurrecting a very old thread, but need to disagree. Even though the following comes from Google help, it is not what I see.

Gmail displays arrows, or 'personal level indicators,' next to messages in your inbox so you can tell if a message was addressed to you, a group, or a mailing list. A single arrow (>) appears next to a message when it is sent to you, and a group of others. Double arrows (>>) indicate that a message is addressed only to you. Arrows won't appear next to messages sent to a mailing list.

Of the emails currently in my Gmail inbox marked with the yellow chevron >>, 99 are addressed to me alone. 9 were sent from individuals to multiple recipients. 51 are from mailing lists.

None show a single arrow.