Setting "Importance" for email using xp_sendmail?

  • Hello Everyone,

    I was wondering if there is a way to set the "Importance"

    or "Priority" of an email message when using xp_sendmail

    (MS SQL 7.0 SP4). I looked at the help section, but could

    not find an Argument I could specify to do this.

    Basically, we are using Microsoft Outlook and we want to

    see the 'red exclamation (!)' symbol next to some of the

    email messages that are being generated using xp_sendmail.

    Thanks for your help.

    Suhas

  • I looked at this for a while and I don't believe that MS provided that functionality with the xp_sendmail functionality. If you find out different I would love to hear about it.

    You could do something like specifying "Important: " in the subject line and then have the customers interested in special message handling set up rules to deal with that appropriately. Cheesy I know but it does work.

    Hope this helps.

    David

    David

    @SQLTentmaker

    “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose” - Jim Elliot

  • You can set the default importance level in Outlook itself. I'm using Outlook 2000 and you can reach that setting by:

    Tools menu

    Options

    E-mail Options button (on first tab - Preferences)

    Advanced E-mail Options button

    Set Importance drop-down list (choose High)

    If you're not using Outlook 2000, the setting is most likely there somewhere within Outlook. Granted, any message then sent from Outlook (even interactively) will default to "High" importance.

    Hope that helps.


    David R Buckingham, MCDBA,MCSA,MCP

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