Is there a way in the Mail app to remove the priority that senders have set on their messages? Too many of them are profligate with priority settings specifically Priority: High and I want to turn that off. Two reasons for downgrading such messages:
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I have read and dealt with the message meaning that the priority setting is now no longer appropriate.
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Simply that others are too eager to set the option and as such make their post close to spammage. I read emails in the order of arrival so for me their decision to elevate the post is meaningless and highly intrusive. (Once read I either archive messages or delete them.)
In either case there is no necessity for the message to retain any uplift in priority.
There seems to be no explicit Rule options in the Mail app to manipulate the Priority: line in message headers. Back in the day of being a Linux user I had a procmail recipe to force priority to be normal (and turn off read receipt requests too). Now that that kind of functionality has been incorporated into User Agents such as the Mail app there is no need or possibily of filtering out egotistical behaviour by senders.
