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what does the * in front of the # of inbox unread mesg mean?

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The family has three mozilla email addresses. The inbox line on one reads ; Inbox (*4). The other two addresses do not have the astrix in front of the number of unopened emails. What does the astrix mean? Thankyou

The family has three mozilla email addresses. The inbox line on one reads ; Inbox (*4). The other two addresses do not have the astrix in front of the number of unopened emails. What does the astrix mean? Thankyou

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The star means the number shown is a summation of the folder, plus the contents of all its subfolders.