[imp] setting a mail priority on outgoing mails ?

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slusarz@bigworm.colorado.edu>:

> Quoting Oliver Thalmann <oliver.thalmann@hospvd.ch>:
> 
> | Well,
> | 
> | it look like there is some "pseudo standard" for this priority tagging
> | (at
> | least Netscape, Mozilla, Opera and "even" Outlook mail clients seem to
> | agree
> | on this one)
> | 
> | it is a header line in the form :
> | 
> | X-Priority : <number> <(Text)>
> | 
> | where number and Text are linked (ie 2 terms for the same meaning) and
> | mean
> | the following :
> | 
> | 1 (Highest)
> | 2 (High)
> | 4 (Low)
> | 5 (Lowest)
> | 
> | the string seems to be case independent (Mozilla puts it all in
> | lowercase)
> | 
> | it is certainly not an RFC (anybody knows better ?), but imho, this
> | system
> | seems "widely" adopted as an easy priority tagging
> | 
> 
> Oliver -
> What exactly are you looking for?  How would you want the priorities 
> displayed?  IMAP only supports "not important"/"important" - "important"
> 
> gets outlined in red, italicized, and an exclamation graphic.  I'm not
> sure 
> I would want to do something like this for a non-standard header though. 
> 
> Any other suggestions on how to display the priority for these type of 
> messages?
> 
> And would it be handy to have IMP allow for setting of this priority on 
> outgoing messages?

As the subject implies, he was talking about outgoing mail. It's the imap
server's part to set the important flag after evaluating the headers.

Jan.

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