Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!wisner
From: wisner@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Bill Wisner)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: priority...
Message-ID: <6617@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 1 Jan 89 08:35:20 GMT
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Reply-To: wisner@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Bill Wisner)
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A few mailing lists I've been on have had filters that automatically added
"Precedence: bulk" to every message. This is Very Useful.

If a system has a large, clogged mail queue, it might be Very Useful
to be able to push a message to an administrator to the top of the list.

Precedence: (not Priority:) headers are a good thing and should be kept
around. In fact, they should be used more.

All the canned Sendmail configurations have a dinky little list of only
three or four priorities. Smail 3.1 comes with five. I wouldn't mind
seeing more Sendmail people adding all of these to their configurations.
Smail 3.1 associates each grade with a single character, similar to UUCP
grades, but they should by easily translatable into Sendmail numbers.

9	special-delivery
A	air-mail
C	first-class
a	bulk
n	junk