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  1. Flagging email importance

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  2. Urgent feature for mails

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    Wim Van Aelst commented  · 

    Adding my support to this long-standing request, and hoping a more detailed case might help move it forward.

    What I — and clearly many others — are asking for is not complex: the ability to assign an importance level to emails, both when sending and when organizing received messages. Specifically:

    **When composing**: A High / Normal / Low importance selector, equivalent to what Outlook has offered since the 1990s. This sets the X-Priority header so recipients on any email client see the flag.

    **When reading**: The ability to mark a received email with more than one state. A single star is a blunt instrument. Even a simple two-flag system (e.g., ⭐ starred + 🔴 urgent, or follow-up flags with due dates) would dramatically improve inbox triage for anyone managing a high volume of email.

    I understand Proton's roadmap is ambitious and that encryption-first architecture adds complexity. But this particular feature does not conflict with Proton's privacy model in any way — importance flags are metadata the user controls entirely on their own device.

    The UserVoice threads on this topic date back years and have accumulated significant votes. I've also seen this cited as a reason people hesitate to fully migrate from Outlook to Proton Mail. That's a real migration barrier that Proton's own 2026 roadmap says it wants to remove.

    I'd love to see this acknowledged on the roadmap — even a "planned" status would reassure a lot of users that it hasn't been forgotten.

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