You can mark certain contacts in your address book as VIP contacts. You can choose special settings for your VIP contact group, including receiving notifications for messages from these contacts only.
VIP contacts will be displayed with a star icon next to their name, and messages from these contacts will appear with a star icon in your mailbox.
To mark a contact as a VIP, open the contact in your Contacts screen and click the star icon in the upper right corner. You can also right-click the contact and select Add to VIPs.
If you need to remove a contact from your VIP contacts, you can do so by clicking the star again or right-clicking the contact and selecting Remove from VIPs.
You can view all of your VIP contacts by clicking on the VIPs group under All contacts.
You can search for all messages from your VIP contacts by entering fromin:vips in your mailbox's Search Mail bar.
Notifications can be enabled for VIP contacts only. For more information, please see our Getting desktop notifications help page.