Web Gmail shows message as starred even after Apps Script unstars it

Question

OK, I think web Gmail is being screwy. I run a Google apps script that in part adds my \"To-do\" label to any thread I manually star, then archives and unstars it. A snippet

Answer 1

I'm having a similar problem. I have enabled a superstar, the green-check. I manually set them.

My script finds the relevant threads using "l:^ss_cg" in a search. It finds the starred email, sends a copy of the email somewhere, and then does the unstar.

Afterward, in the web gmail, if i search for the same message again, it shows up with a green star visually, but if I hover over the star icon, it shows 'not starred'.

However, if I run the script again, the thread is found using the search. It doesn't send another copy of the email, however, because I have a check for ".isStarred()" before it sends a copy of the specific email. I have also been able to reduce the number of threads it double-checks by adding a .hasStarredEmails() check to the thread before it starts looking at individual emails.

Doing a search in the web interface for has:green-check reveals only the emails it should.

There is something about .unStar() that doesn't work properly, I think.

I had considered trying to remove the star at the thread level by removing the ^ss_cg label, but that won't work because there is no way to get a GMailLabel object to send to the function.