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Bug 209002 - Email priority
Email priority
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.2.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: Future
Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2001-09-06 01:45 UTC by Paul M Edwards
Modified: 2013-09-13 00:49 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Paul M Edwards 2001-09-06 01:46:28 UTC
Package: Evolution
Priority: Normal
Version: 0.13.99
Synopsis: Email priority
Bugzilla-Product: Evolution
Bugzilla-Component: Mailer

Description:
Please add the ability to prioritize an email before sending it.

Good choices are:
High
Normal
Low

I put this as a 'Normal' priority bug rather than 'Wish List' because it
is a fairly standard feature available in most other mailers.


Comment 1 Not Zed 2001-09-25 02:47:50 UTC
Definetly a wish list type of feature though.
Comment 2 Juan Jose Amor 2001-12-25 19:17:34 UTC
Why do not you consider this feature to milestone 1.2?

As Paul says, "because it is a fairly standard feature available in
most other mailers".

And because it may be easy to implement :-)

Comment 3 Paul M Edwards 2002-11-12 09:35:31 UTC
Please consider this for a future release.
Comment 4 André Klapper 2005-01-25 19:12:03 UTC
still missing in 2.1.3.2...
Comment 5 Roland Lammel 2005-06-22 08:54:55 UTC
Are there any plans to introduce this in 2.4 as it still is not in 2.2.2?

Which parts have to be touched to get this working (GUI only, or other aprts too
like camel?)

+rl
Comment 6 André Klapper 2006-07-10 15:29:34 UTC
this is included since evolution 2.4 - you can now "prioritise message" in the composer. closing as fixed.
Comment 7 Andrew Jorgensen 2006-09-28 00:08:09 UTC
However there doesn't appear to be any UI to call attention to the priority in a received message.
Comment 8 André Klapper 2006-09-28 09:15:22 UTC
andrew: no, there isn't by purpose. we think that the recipient should decide whether a message is important to him, not the sender. :-)
Comment 9 Andrew Jorgensen 2006-09-29 14:29:49 UTC
(In reply to comment #8)
> andrew: no, there isn't by purpose. we think that the recipient should decide
> whether a message is important to him, not the sender. :-)

That decision is still entirely up to the recipient.  The X-Priority header's purpose is to inform the recipient as to how important the email is to the sender, not the recipient.

I have certainly sent several emails which in my opinion were urgent.  This seems to happen a lot in the corporate world.  It's also a feature that groupwise users have come to expect and Novell will surely want to implement in Evolution at least for the groupwise support.

Besides, if you think that the recipient should decide whether a message is important to him then why on earth did you implement this Prioritize option? :-)
Comment 10 André Klapper 2006-09-29 14:38:56 UTC
andrew: i can fully understand your point of view. however, feel free to poke the novell folks about this at https://bugzilla.novell.com - this bugzilla here is gnome, not novell. :-)