[CentOS] email and MS outlook

Toby Bluhm tkb at midwestinstruments.com
Thu Sep 18 13:43:28 UTC 2008


Mag Gam wrote:
> We use Microsoft Outlook heavy at school but our backed is CentOS. I
> use echo "Foo" | mail -s "subject" addr at unc.edu a lot. Is it possible
> to change the priority to High so Outlook will understand it? The
> priority meaning the email will be sent to the normal email queue but
> on Outlook it would have the exclamation point.
> 

Maybe just a stupid idea . . .

If it is just a header thing, as it's been suggested, I would try procmail.

Your command would be something like

echo "Foo" | mail -s "subject:real_recipient" highpriority at unc.edu

The procmail script for the highpriority account would add in the 
necessary header, pull real_recipient out of subject & forward it to 
real_recipient at unc.edu.


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Toby Bluhm
Alltech Medical Systems America, Inc.




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