Isn't the solution for TJ as simple as having a dedicated header column
for priority, separate from "flag"? So you don't "turn off" the
priority setting, you just choose not to display it.
-Eric
On 14 Nov 2018, at 9:52, Bill Cole wrote:
On 13 Nov 2018, at 13:38, TJ Luoma wrote:
We all know these folks… they may be friends, loved one, or even
co-workers… but there are just some people who seem unable to send
out
an email without labelling it as HIGH PRIORITY.
Of course, that almost instantly makes their messages seem _not_ high
priority, because if everything is an emergency, then nothing really
is.
I would love it if MailMate could allow me to turn off the HIGH
PRIORITY flag in emails that I receive which I deem to be not HIGH
PRIORITY.
I don't want to turn off the entire column because I do sometimes use
regular flags to highlight messages.
I agree completely, and I hope Benny comes up with an implementation.
However, there is a quirk with this misfeature of email which explains
why changing the "Priority" isn't universally implemented: it is not
an IMAP keyword (which would be a local receiver-set value.) Instead,
it is set by the sender adding one or more non-standard headers:
X-Priority, Priority, X-Importance, Importance, or X-MSMail-Priority.
I don't know which of these MailMate specifically honors but they all
share the same problem: as headers they are an internal part of the
delivered message, which an IMAP server must never modify.
So, unsetting the 'Priority' requires the IMAP client (MailMate) to
reconstruct the message without whichever header(s) it is honoring and
store it and then to delete the original. This means the client has to
do more housekeeping on the state of a message and it means that other
clients could catch the server in a state where both messages exist.
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