288572 - The priority of received email messages not visible

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[LW]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

Thunderbird doesn't show the Priority status of any received email messages. It
is impossible to tell if a message is high priority or not and important
messages can be easily lost if one receive a lot of email everyday. Outlook
Express has a function that shows in a separate colume (with exclaimation marks)
the priority status of any received email messages. It would also be helpful to
include the same functionality in Thunderbird. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Compose a message. Select High Priority under the Options Menu. 
2.Send the message
3.Receive the message in Thunderbird.


Actual Results:  
No information about the priority of the message is preserved. The message is
exactly the same as any other priority message sent. The same thing happens
using any other mail client to send High Priority messages. 

Expected Results:  
I don't think Thunderbird is supposed to do anything. But I would like for it to
either highlight the mail, or have a new colume that marks the priority mail
with something.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Reporter, the priority column is not shown by default. You can enable it by
clicking on the right-most icon in the column-list (looks like a tiny window
with an arrow pointing downwards) 

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

Yeah see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_Tips_:_Message-List_Columns.