Important emails via hotmail

[Bluestone]

I am just about to send an email, via hotmail, but wondered how I mark it as 'important', and what difference does that make their end?
I know it sounds like a stupid question, and one I should probably know the answer to, but I don't think I've ever sent an email that needed marking as important.

Thanks :-)

[MarkRae]

How do you access your Hotmail account? Is it through www.hotmail.com, Windows Live Mail, www.outlook.com or through an application installed on your computer e.g. Microsoft Outlook...?

[ChuckFickens]

Old style hotmail, click the little red exclamation mark in the toolbar of the mail edit window.

New style, select options on the top of the mail edit window, select high priority.

All mail clients show important mails in a different way, but generally all it does is put a little red exclamation mark next to the email in their inbox, I tend to ignore it even if it is there because a lot of spam is marked important.

[Bluestone]

Through www.hotmail.com

I've found the little red "!" now, and sent it.

Ah, shucks. I get those spam emails with the exclamation marks next to them too, which now makes me think she'll ignore it and think it's spam. Damn. I thought it might go to the top of the inbox or something.

Thanking you :-)

[MarkRae]

You're right. The "importance" flag of emails is designed precisely so that recipients can order their inbox by the importance of the emails it contains rather than, say, the date in which they arrived. Problem is that it's the sender who "decides" how important they think their email should be to you, not the other way round... :-)

[ChuckFickens]

It's also overused, like I said, a lot of spam is marked important now, spammers seem to think that just because they've marked their mail important I'll suddenly want to buy Viagra urgently.

[Bluestone]

Ah, ok. Well that was a bit pointless then.

Chuck, Damn! That's a marketing trick I won't be falling for again! :P