[MlMt] How to Set Message Priority

[Bill Cole]

On 1 Sep 2019, at 15:02, Bruce Lynn wrote:

> Hello Fellow MailMate Enthusiasts,
>
> Is there a way to set the priority of an email for the receiver. For 
> most of my life I have used Thunderbird or Apple Mail and both allowed 
> me to set a Priority for the sender’s benefit.

The assertion that it is a benefit to anyone for a sender to set a 
message's priority is questionable but you can do it if you really want 
to...

> In Apple Mail I had the choice of High, Normal and Low. I have 
> searched before posting but could not discover how to accomplish this 
> task.

It has been discussed here before, in the thread starting here: 
https://lists.freron.com/mailmate/2014-April/002546.html

Note that whichever of the available non-standard (but variously 
client-supported) header(s) you choose for setting the purported 
priority/importance of a message, there is no guarantee that it will get 
any attention or that the attention it gets will be the sort that you 
want. For example: I have found that mail with such headers is so 
uniformly spam that it is not worth wasting my mail server's limited 
resources handling it.

-- 
Bill Cole
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(AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)