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<p dir="auto">Moin alexT,</p>
<p dir="auto">On 7 Dec 2025, at 21:21, Alexandre Takacs via mailmate wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">Is there any guideline / suggestion to have MM and Thunderbird Tags somehow in synch, or is this is proprietary to each app ?</p>
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<p dir="auto">Tags in MailMate and Thunderbird are based on the same IMAP feature. The only difference is that in MailMate you can define the IMAP KEYWORD yourself, while Thunderbird uses the scheme <code style="padding: 0 0.25em; background-color: #F7F7F7;">$label1</code>, <code style="padding: 0 0.25em; background-color: #F7F7F7;">$label2</code>, …. This means that the order in which tags are created is important in Thunderbird.</p>
<p dir="auto">However, you can freely assign keywords in the Thunderbird profile in the user.js file:</p>
<pre style="margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px; padding: 5px; border: thin solid gray; overflow-x: auto; max-width: 90vw; background-color: #F7F7F7;"><code style="padding: 0 0.25em; background-color: #F7F7F7;">user_pref(“mailnews.tags.MyLabel.color”, “#3366FF”);
user_pref(“mailnews.tags.MyLabel.tag”, “mylabel”);
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<p dir="auto">If you have already tagged emails with Thunderbird, you should first create the “MailMate-style” tags in <code style="padding: 0 0.25em; background-color: #F7F7F7;">user.js</code> (don't forget to restart Thunderbird) and retag the emails with the old tags to the new ones. You can then remove the old tags via Thunderbird settings.</p>
<p dir="auto">You will be able to see the tags created via <code style="padding: 0 0.25em; background-color: #F7F7F7;">user.js</code> in the settings. However, I don't know what happens if you rename them or change their color there. I've never tried it.</p>
<p dir="auto">--<br>
Best regards<br>
Mike</p>
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