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Nicholas Riley

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May 21, 1997, 3:00:00 AM5/21/97
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I just got two mail messages today which came with an X-Priority: of 3
(so-called "Normal", according to the description):

X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b4 [en] (WinNT; I)
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)

X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Priority: 3
X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155

Eudora doesn't agree - it sorted them as very high priority into my
inbox (the actions for which include turning the message header red,
auto-opening them, and paging me with the message subject and author).
Needless to say, this was a slight bit annoying.

It seems Microsoft and Netscape have defined this "standard" for
themselves as of recently. If it's normal, why include an X-Priority:
header line at all? (Is there a standard for this anyway?)

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Lee Jaap

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May 23, 1997, 3:00:00 AM5/23/97
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In article <1997052119...@roadrunner.tiac.net> nri...@tiac.net (Nicholas Riley) writes:

|>I just got two mail messages today which came with an X-Priority: of 3
|>(so-called "Normal", according to the description):
|>
|>X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b4 [en] (WinNT; I)
|>X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
|>
|>X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
|>X-Priority: 3
|>X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155
|>
|>Eudora doesn't agree - it sorted them as very high priority into my
|>inbox (the actions for which include turning the message header red,
|>auto-opening them, and paging me with the message subject and author).
|>Needless to say, this was a slight bit annoying.
|>
|>It seems Microsoft and Netscape have defined this "standard" for
|>themselves as of recently. If it's normal, why include an X-Priority:
|>header line at all? (Is there a standard for this anyway?)

Remember what the X- headers are for. The SMTP mail standard will
_never_ standardize these. It's up to each mailer program what these
extensions mean. Different programmers may choose same values to
mean different things.

It's up to users to bang on their suppliers if it needs to be "fixed".
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J Lee Jaap <Jaa...@ASMSun.LaRC.NASA.Gov> +1 757/865-7093
employed by, not necessarily speaking for,
AS&M Inc, Hampton VA 23666-1340

Georg Kubesch

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May 23, 1997, 3:00:00 AM5/23/97
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does anybody know where i can get a source code for an SMTP mail server
for win 95, or how the protocoll exactly works ?

would be a great help for me.

thanx, george

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