[Evolution] Re: mail priorities

[David Norman <admin deekayen net>]

I'm not sure how big a flame I'm feeding, but I did check the archives.
What I saw from Ximian folks seemed a bit silly, specifically this
thread:

http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution/2002-June/019087.html

Summary: we won't implement it because some websites have differing
opinions on header definitions.

I don't think it's such a hard fact to face that the sheer volume of
Outlook users in itself creates the standard on what the priority
headers set by it are essentially the standard. I don't think it would
be a strech to say that the 1 to 5 inclusive range on X-Priority with 1
high, 5 low is close enough to a standard to be dependable for Outlook,
Mozilla, and Squirrelmail and that the X-MSMail-Priority header is 100%
dependable for sending to Outlook clients.

I also found this thread of a debate that says senders shouldn't be
allowed to sort the recipients email priorities.

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-December/msg03221.html

As one person points out, all the recipient has to do is disregard what
the sender set if they don't think a high priority email is really a
priority. I think it makes sense for a boss to note to their
subordinates what's high priority and not.

I won't press the issue beyond this since it seems that the development
team has already stamped a big No on this feature request. I won't put
code where my mouth is since it would take me longer to learn how to
code it than it would be worth to use it, but I would also say that
just because some developers might not like to use the feature/option,
doesn't mean everyone else wouldn't want to, too.

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> Subject: Re: [Evolution] mail priorities
> From: Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>
> To: Evolution Users <evolution lists ximian com>
> Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 16:09:54 +0200
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> Am Mi, den 05.05.2004 schrieb David Norman um 13:27:
> > I've got coworkers that actually prefer having priorities set on
> their
> > email with the X-Priority and/or X-MSMail-Priority headers. Is
> there a
> > setting for that when composing emails or is that just not
> implemented?
>
> hi,
>
> it is whether implemented nor is it planned to.
> if you are interested in the reasons, please check the archives.
>
> cheers,
> andre