Certain Labels in Gmail are not allowed

Per a member post in the Gmail-Users Google Group, he found that the label "unread" gets a system error and thinks there may be another feature on the way.



Creating a label entitled "unread" gets the following error message:

  System specific label names are not allowed. Please try another name.  

I don't think there are any new features on the way, for you get the same response for the labels entitled "draft", "starred", "trash", etc. But it is an interesting piece of information to file away.