Colored bars around certain emails

i just started using the mail program -- i hadn't used it since using 10.2.8. i can't figure out why some emails in the inbox and trash [and i assume sent] have blue bars around them and some don't. and why as i scroll through the emails, the bars go off and on. any rational reason? any way to turn it off? it seems as if it's grouping conversations with the same subject. thanks.

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