205816 - 'Normal' (= 'X-Priority: 3') Priority should not be displayed in upper right pane, should it ?

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507

Assuming that the default value for email Priority is 'Normal',
it should display as blank even when explicitly set.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. "Select" a message containing 'X-Priority: 3'.

Actual Results:  
The Priority column displays 'Normal'.


Expected Results:  
The Priority column should be left blank.


Same issue with
{
[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030425]

(with v1.3 profile, at least)
}

This is kind of opposite thinking of bug 187156.

Comment 1

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

[Netscape® Communicator 4.8 : en-20020722]

Bug does not occur in N.Messenger v4.8.
Adding: '4xp'.

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

I don't think the default is "normal". The default is "not set", or none. I can imagine there are times people would want to set the priority to "normal", just as an indication. (For the little use priorities have that is.)

"Fixing" this bug would thus lead to information loss. What do you think, Serge?

Comment 3

[Karsten Düsterloh]

The assumed default if X-Priority is not set explicitly is 3/normal. While we don't (and won't) set this ourself, we should show when incoming mail does set this (unnecessarily).