Re: [Evolution] Message priority - a recap

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

Just found another reference about [X-]Priority... seems another set of
values are:

lowest/low/normal/high/highest (as strings)

hah, gotta love it.

Jeff

On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 13:43, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> So let's recap on this whole Importance/Priority feature... a quick
> search on the net provides the following list of known priority related
> headers:
>
> X-MS-Priority
> X-MSMail-Priority
> X-Priority
> Priority
> Importance
> Precedence
> X-Urgent
>
>
>
> according to rfc2076:
>
> Priority:      RFC 1327, not for general usage.
>
> Precedence:    Non-standard, controversial, discouraged.
>
> Importance:    RFC 1327 and RFC 1911, experimental
>
>
>
>
> There also seems to be a difference of opinion on how the
> X-Priority/Priority headers are to be used. According to rfc2076 and
> rfc2156, there are 3 values: 
>
> "normal", "urgent" and "non-urgent"
>
> but a quick search on google shows that many mailers set values between
> 1 and 5 (inclusive).
>
> According to one site, a value of 1 means the highest priority and 5
> means lowest, but another site claims just the opposite. (I would have
> to say that the most logical to me would be 5 is the highest priority
> and 1 is the lowest, but hey - I didn't invent the fucking thing so I
> guess my opinion means squat).
>
> yay for non-standards.
>
> So, it seems to me that supporting [X-]Priority is out of the question,
> unless we only support "normal" (aka '3' for the mailers that use
> integer values). Of course, supporting only "normal" is pretty much a
> waste of time given that we already support normal mail :-)
>
> Jeff
>
> On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 12:58, Lonnie Borntreger wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 11:32, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > > I was only aware of X-MS-Priority for Outlook and X-Priority for
> > > Netscape/Mozilla - what is the other Microsoft priority header? Or does
> > > it use X-Priority too? And if so, is it compatable with Netscape's
> > > X-Priority format?
> > >
> > > Jeff
> >
> > The only headers I saw set by Outlook were:
> > X-Priority:  <- This contains number followed by text in ()
> > X-MSMail-Priority:   <- This is a text only field
> >
> > The X-Priority is common across Outlook 2000, Outlook Express 5.5,
> > Kmail, and Netscape/Mozilla 
> >
> > -- 
> > TTFN,
> > Lonnie Borntreger
> >
> >
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