Send mail with priority from console

Question

How can I send mail from the console marked with "priority high" flag?

Currently I'm using this syntax:

echo "message content" | mail -s "subject" user@example.com

I don't see any switches for this in man.

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/30599/setting-headers-using-the-bin-mail-command — Sven, Jul 30 '14 at 11:14
If you are sending mail to local users, maybe a `man write` made your day. — peterh, Jul 30 '14 at 12:27

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 30 '14 at 15:36

Can you use sendmail? If so:

mymachine $ sendmail user@example.com <<EOM
> To: user@example.com
> From: me@example.com
> Subject: Test mail `date +"%x %H:%M"`
> Importance: high    
> X-Priority: 1 (Highest)
> X-MSMail-Priority: High
> 
> Test message
> EOM

mymachine $

The text after > would be typed in on the newline. Of course, you could just pipe a text file:

mymachine $ cat > message
> To: user@example.com
> From: me@example.com
> Subject: Test mail `date +"%x %H:%M"`
> Importance: high
> X-Priority: 1 (Highest)
> X-MSMail-Priority: High
> 
> Test message
## CTRL+D ##

mymachine $ cat message | sendmail user@example.com

Send mail with priority from console

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