mailx priority set

[Khashru]

I am using mailx for sending mail. I want to set priority on the mail. I tried -p but it says illegial option.

Can someone help me.

[Bill Hassell]

According to the man page, there is no option to control priority. Unix email does not do anything different for mail priorities.

[Khashru]

I have read the man page too. but the following website is saying it is possible

http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man1/mailx.1.asp

[Peter Godron]

HI,
I would rely on the hpux man pages. Is the webpage specifically for HPUX?

what is the output of:
what `which mailx`

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Mail delivered using the sendmail mta is delivered according to its queue position. The biggest factor effecting priority is the speed in which DNS is resolved, an external factor in almost every case.

sEP

[Bill Hassell]

The link: http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man1/mailx.1.asp
is for the mailx program provided by the MKS Toolkit which is a port of Unix utilities to PCs running Windows. HP-UX, like all other versions of Unix (and any OS for that matter) will follow industry standards where they exist but extra features and implementation differences are quite common. Therefore, the only reliable documentation will be the man pages on the system you are using.

Note that as Steven mentined, priority is not a factor in HP-UX and is really just a flag for some MTA (mail transport agents) programs and email display programs like Outlook.