High Priority Mail using mailx

Question

I have written the mailx command like this

echo "${BDY_MSG}" | mailx -r <from_address> -s <subject> <to_address>

Now I need to set the priority of this mail.How do I do that?

Answer 1

You'll have to look at your mailx manpage to see what options are accepted. Two solutions in increasing order of hack-iness:

• If your mailx supports the -a option to add an additional header option, you can use -a "X-Priority:1".
• If your mailx does not support the -a option, you can try to hack it in by using this trick from this other post by adding a newline to the subject: -s "$(echo -e "This is the subject\nX-Priority: 1")"
• If neither of those work for you, you'll need to try another tool.