Sending mails in Gmail with some priority

[gizmach]

Hi all,
I am wondering if there is a way to send e-mail form Gmail with given
priority and to receive mail with some priority? For example I would
like to send to e-mails, one that has to be seen and answered within
10 minutes and one that needs to be seen till the end of the week.
Will it be possible to do something like that?

Thank you all,

Melita

[Nick Chirchirillo]

The only way you could do this is to use a program such as Outlook or Thunderbird to send your mail and set the priority from there.  However, the GMail web interface will still ignore any priority setting.  I've seen this question asked before on this forum and the general response was that most people (including myself) simply ignore any sort of priority flag on incoming mail and would rather determine the importance of an email by themselves.

If you have a really important email, I would suggest either giving it an appropriate subject (one that will catch the recipient's eye, but not something that will get flagged as spam), or sending it, then calling the recipient and telling them that you just send them an email that you would like to be answered fairly quickly.

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-Nick

[Randy Harmelink]

You could do it with filters, as long as the sender and receiver have
an agreed upon "signal" either in the subject line or the message body
that can be filtered on -- to apply a special label to it, or star it.

Think about it this way -- if there were some way for a sender to
automatically indicate an email is important, don't you think every
SPAMMER in the world would use it? It would become a useless feature.
The RECEIVER is the one who needs to indicate whether something is
important.