Priority

There is no SMTP standard for message priority. Most email applications use an X−Priority value of 3 for messages with "normal" priority. More important messages have lower values and less important messages have higher values. In most cases, urgent messages have an X−Priority value of 1. The priority code used with the Mail classes, and set in the headers are as follows:

  1. Highest Priority

  2. High Priority

  3. Normal

  4. Low Priority

  5. Lowest Priority

The default value is 3, that is, normal priority.

Different email programs render these different values in a variety of ways, usually using some kind of colored symbols or arrows.

Set the priority for an email using the Priority property. The following is an example:

&Email.Priority = 2;