[JENKINS-69592] Enable setting email priority/importance with email-ext

[jenkins-infra-bot]

I use email-ext plugin to be able to manage notifications for many different jobs. I would like to be able to change email priority for important jobs, less priority for something simple like a failed unit test, so forth using the email-ext from within a pipeline.

According to this stackoverflow this currently isn't possible but is easily implementable: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7497955/jenkins-ci-how-to-add-importance-property-to-email-header

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Originally reported by joelwizard, imported from: Enable setting email priority/importance with email-ext

• status: Open
• priority: Minor
• component(s): email-ext-plugin
• label(s): email-ext, jenkins, user-experience
• resolution: Unresolved
• votes: 2
• watchers: 3
• imported: 20251211-193728

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I use email-ext plugin to be able to manage notifications for many different jobs. I would like to be able to change email priority for important jobs, less priority for something simple like a failed unit test, so forth using the email-ext from within a pipeline.

According to this stackoverflow this currently isn't possible but is easily implementable: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7497955/jenkins-ci-how-to-add-importance-property-to-email-header

[jenkins-infra-bot]

rfauvel:

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  I managed to do it this way:
  
  node('My-Node') {
      stage('test') {
          emailext(
              body: 'Test content',
              subject: 'Test subject',
              to: 'example@test.com',
              presendScript: '''msg.addHeader("X-Priority", "1")''')
      }
  }
  
  But it would be useful to have a global Jenkins parameter that allows you to choose with which priority all mails sent by Jenkins are sent.
  

I managed to do it this way:

node('My-Node') {
    stage('test') {
emailext(
            body: 'Test content',
            subject: 'Test subject',
            to: 'example@​test.com',
            presendScript: '''msg.addHeader("X-Priority", "1")''')
    }
}

But it would be useful to have a global Jenkins parameter that allows you to choose with which priority all mails sent by Jenkins are sent.

[jenkins-infra-bot]

slide_o_mix:

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• Raw content of original comment:

  You could add it in the global config under Default Pre-send Script. This would then work for all jobs.
  

You could add it in the global config under Default Pre-send Script. This would then work for all jobs.