Re: [Evolution] Message Priority Button

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 16:41 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> hi murray,
>
> Am Montag, den 13.03.2006, 13:01 +0800 schrieb Murray Trainer:
> > I notice that in Evolution 2.4.0-3 there doesn't appear to be a button
> > in the message compose window to set the message priority like in
> > Outlook.  I found the priority can be set via Insert / Send Options /
> > Priority but this seems a bit involved especially for new users.  Has a
> > button for this been added in a newer version
>
> no, at least not in 2.6 which is the latest version.
>
> > or is it planned in the future.
>
> a high priority for you might be low priority or even spam for me. many
> spam messages i receive have a high priority. only because the sender
> thinks that he writes something important, i don't have to have the same
> opinion at all.
>
> as far as i know, the feature was only implemented for outlook users
> which still believe that this feature would be useful in any kind of
> way, and a button in the evolution composer would encourage even more
> users to use a this. so i hope a button will NOT be added.

Totally agree. "Message Priority" is only useful when there's an option
to lower it but not to raise it. Thus the "Priority: Bulk" header used
by mailing-list managers.

poc