Setting message prorities and Read receipt

[Bharath Ramesh]

Hi,
I am a new mutt user and I would like to know how do I set
message priority to urgent using mutt and how do I request for a read
receipt before I send the mail. The other question is that how do I know
that a message is marked urgent which has been sent to me so that I can
change the color in my index to display that message differently from
others.
I am not a member of the mutt user group, I would appreciate it
if you could cc the reply to my address.

Thanks

Bharath

[René Clerc]

Post by Bharath Ramesh
I am a new mutt user and I would like to know how do I set
message priority to urgent using mutt

I believe that if you set a header "X-Priority: 1", most e-mail
clients will recognize the message as being urgent. Check out $my_hdr.

Post by Bharath Ramesh
and how do I request for a read receipt before I send the mail.

Read the manual on the $dsn_* options (dsn: Delivery Status Notification)

Post by Bharath Ramesh
The other question is that how do I know that a message is marked
urgent which has been sent to me so that I can change the color in
my index to display that message differently from others.

If my above statement is true, something like:

color index brightred black "~h 'X-Priority: 1'"

should do the trick.

Post by Bharath Ramesh
I am not a member of the mutt user group, I would appreciate it
if you could cc the reply to my address.

echo "lists mutt-***@mutt.org" >> ~/.muttrc

[Alain Bench]

Hello,

Post by Bharath Ramesh
how do I request for a read receipt before I send the mail.

You can set this in muttrc, either statical, or in a macro or hook:

| my_hdr Disposition-Notification-To: Bharath Ramesh <***@vt.edu>

Or take a look at Werner Koch's patch-1.5.3.wk.mdn.1 (on mutt-dev
archives) and press ESC-n key in compose menu.

In any case the recipient's mailer has to be MDN-compatible and the
guy has to accept sending a confirmation.

Post by Bharath Ramesh
I am not a member of the mutt user group, I would appreciate it if you
could cc the reply to my address.

No problem. You can help repliers to do this automatically by setting
in muttrc "lists mutt-***@mutt.org" and "set followup_to".


Bye! Alain.