CentOS - Sep 2008 - email and MS outlook

We use Microsoft Outlook heavy at school but our backed is CentOS. I
use echo "Foo" | mail -s "subject" addr at unc.edu a lot. Is
it possible
to change the priority to High so Outlook will understand it? The
priority meaning the email will be sent to the normal email queue but
on Outlook it would have the exclamation point.

TIA

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Mag Gam <magawake at gmail.com> wrote:
> We use Microsoft Outlook heavy at school but our backed is CentOS. I
> use echo "Foo" | mail -s "subject" addr at unc.edu a
lot. Is it possible
> to change the priority to High so Outlook will understand it? The
> priority meaning the email will be sent to the normal email queue but
> on Outlook it would have the exclamation point.
>
> TIA
> _______________________________________________

man mail will show you how to change the priority, sender, and much more :)

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On 2008-09-18 12:05, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Mag Gam <magawake at gmail.com wrote:
> 
>     We use Microsoft Outlook heavy at school but our backed is CentOS. I
>     use echo "Foo" | mail -s "subject" addr at unc.edu
a lot. Is it possible
>     to change the priority to High so Outlook will understand it? The
>     priority meaning the email will be sent to the normal email queue but
>     on Outlook it would have the exclamation point.
> 
> 
> man mail will show you how to change the priority, sender, and much more :)

   $ man mail | grep -i priority | wc -l
   0
   $ rpm -q centos-release
   centos-release-5-2.el5.centos.x86_64

Actually, I think MS LookOut expects some header line indicating the
priority.  But added an arbitary header line is not possible using mail
(or mailx).  To add the required header, you would need to format
the whole mail message, including all the standard required headers,
plus the header line indicating a priority for displaying an exclamation
mark in MS LookOut, and then sending that message of using "sendmail"
itself.
Or you could use some perl/python/php/ruby script that does all this
for you.

Mail/mailx/mail cannot add the header.
But I'm open to learn something new...

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Mag Gam wrote:
> We use Microsoft Outlook heavy at school but our backed is CentOS. I
> use echo "Foo" | mail -s "subject" addr at unc.edu a
lot. Is it possible
> to change the priority to High so Outlook will understand it? The
> priority meaning the email will be sent to the normal email queue but
> on Outlook it would have the exclamation point.
> 
Maybe just a stupid idea . . .

If it is just a header thing, as it's been suggested, I would try procmail.

Your command would be something like

echo "Foo" | mail -s "subject:real_recipient" highpriority
at unc.edu

The procmail script for the highpriority account would add in the 
necessary header, pull real_recipient out of subject & forward it to 
real_recipient at unc.edu.


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