Richard Lynch wrote: > On Thu, October 13, 2005 12:47 pm, Nathaniel Hall wrote: > >>I have a PHP script that automatically sends an e-mail when accessed. >>Is there any way to mark the e-mail that is sent >>as urgent or flagged? >> >>Any help is appreciated. > > > Yes, but... > > You can add a header "Priority: High" (I think it's "High") > > But only spammers use that [1], so it increases the odds of getting > marked as spam. > > The urgency of an email, as defined by the sender, has turned out to > be relatively useless, since the urgency, as defined by the recipient, > rarely matches. While you may have the luxury of knowing for sure > that the two urgencies (sender/recipient) *DO* match up, it's a rare > occurrence. > > If you have sufficient control over sender and recipient accounts, you > could add URGENT to the Subject: and/or set up filtering on the email > client to force the message to be flagged there, based on criteria > that are less likely to get the email flagged as junk. > > Maybe if Priority email cost more to send and bulk was cheaper, these > settings would become meaningful again. But, as it stands now, they > are largely useless to the sender. I'm sure some recipients > re-prioritize email based on filters, and that remains useful. > > [1] This was an exaggeration, though not a huge one. Actually, savvy > spammers no longer use a Priority setting. > This is all for internal use. The PHP webpage is used as a honeypot on our website. When people visit the appropriate page, I would like an Urgent e-mail to be sent to my e-mail and my cell phone (to the phones email address). I am able to send text messages as urgent and they vibrate and ring differently already. I have the page working now, but it does not mark anything as urgent or high priority. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
