Jens Paulus <mutt> [30/07/01 03:02 +0200]:
> question instead, but I would still like to know it. Some mail programs
> offer the user the chance to set a so-called "priority" to the message
Right.
> X-Priority: 3
> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
> If I'm right the user should set here the urgency or importance of the
This is right - and these X- headers will work - _if_ the recipient is using
one of the common 'doze MTAs (or even Netscape / KMail and such on *nix).
However, being X- headers, they are not guaranteed to work elsewhere.
Pegasus Mail on 'doze (and elm on *nix) use Priority: urgent, which, I
believe, is defined as a well known header in one of the RFCs - about
commonly used e-mail headers I believe.
Then there are the Precedence: headers which are inserted by mailing list
servers and autoresponders (most common case here, I know other programs
insert this as well).
Several MTAs know to correctly parse these and automatically assign a
slightly lower priority to delivering these mails with Precedence: set.
The Priority: header (and it's bastardized M$ cousins, the X-Priority and
X-MSMail-Priority headers) are only parsed by mail clients as far as I am
aware. In fact, you can use score rules in mutt to flag such mails for your
attention (or set a very low score on them, as some people do <g>)
> explain the sense of that to me? By the way, what does 'X-UIDL' mean?
UIDL is inserted by your POP server when downloading mails, to keep track of
the mail downloaded and uniquely identify it.
-suresh
