[MlMt] Tags MM vs Thunderdird

[Mike Brasch]

Moin alexT,

On 7 Dec 2025, at 21:21, Alexandre Takacs via mailmate wrote:

> Is there any guideline / suggestion to have MM and Thunderbird Tags 
> somehow in synch, or is this is proprietary to each app ?

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 `$label1`, `$label2`, …. 
This means that the order in which tags are created is important in 
Thunderbird.

However, you can freely assign keywords in the Thunderbird profile in 
the user.js file:

```
user_pref(“mailnews.tags.MyLabel.color”, “#3366FF”);
user_pref(“mailnews.tags.MyLabel.tag”, “mylabel”);
```

If you have already tagged emails with Thunderbird, you should first 
create the “MailMate-style” tags in `user.js` (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.

You will be able to see the tags created via `user.js` in the settings. 
However, I don't know what happens if you rename them or change their 
color there. I've never tried it.

-- 
Best regards
Mike
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