Re: [Evolution] Evolution does not support message's priority?

[Lonnie Borntreger <email borntreger com>]

On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 02:19 +0200, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote:
> Uhm, why has this been cross-posted to the hackers list in the first
> place?

No idea. I just replied to the lists as shown.

> On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 15:18 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 11:53 -0700, Lonnie Borntreger wrote:
> > > Um, wrong answer.  He wanted to know if evolution supports message
> > > priority, not "marking as important".  Message priority allows the
> > > >>sender<< to assign a message priority from low = 5, to critical = 1
> > > to the message in the hopes that it helps the receiver determine what
> > > emails to read first.  This uses the "non-standard" mail header
> > > X-Priority.
> 
> Evolution supports  X-Priority: 1  (critical), and normal email.
> 
> IIRC, an important part of the discussion back those days was, that it
> is none of the senders business to re-arrange *my* (being the recipient)
> priority queue.

Yup.  I definitely remember that (sometime heated) discussion.  That
combined with it being under the "Insert" menu, made so I missed it
being added.  Seems amusing to me that it was added after Novell
acquired Ximian.  Maybe a manager "suggested" it. ;-)

Lonnie Borntreger