Re: [Evolution] Message priority - a recap

[Lonnie Borntreger <email borntreger com>]

On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 12:54, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> Just found another reference about [X-]Priority... seems another set of
> values are:
>
> lowest/low/normal/high/highest (as strings)
>
> hah, gotta love it.

Weird.

Anyway, my filter that colors high priority items red and low priority
blue, works perfectly for receiving mail from Outlook, Outlook Express,
Kmail, Netscape(4-7), and Mozilla.  They all use a number (some with
text, but always a number) with 3 being normal, 1 and 2 being some level
of higher priority, and 4 and 5 being lower priority.


> On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 13:43, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
[ snipped a lot of RFC stuff ]

Damn.  I spent two hours last night looking through RFCs and didn't see
any of this.  What RFC search engine do you use?

> > 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).

Well, considering that every other tool I use (problem tracking, etc.)
has 1 as the highest priority (like "this is your number 1 priority"), I
like it with 1 being highest and 5 being lowest.  But that's me.....

> > 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 :-)

Based on my testing (see my first paragraph), I think there is a
de-facto standard used for X-Priority by other mailers, and it could be
used by Evolution.  However, I have filters that show me when something
is marked as high/low priority, and if I ever need to send something
marked as such, I can switch mailers for that email. (a pain, but
doable)

I've just been testing and sending my results in response to questions. 
Whether you add that ability to Evolution, or not, is entirely a product
feature decision on your part, since it is your product.


-- 
TTFN,
Lonnie Borntreger