Accessing Outlook Exchange Categories / Colour Categories

Question

Hi,

We have a user who would like to be able to access their Outlook Categories / Colour Categories as they use them as an inportant part of their work flow.

Is there a way of accessing these via the components over IMAP (or even Pop3 if that is an option for Exchange)?

Answer 1

As far as I know categories are not available through IMAP in Exchange (although IMAP's flags could have been used for that).

You can only set Flagged Flag:

client.FlagMessageByUID(uid, Flag.Flagged);

You can check which flags a message has using

List<Flag> flags = client.GetFlagsByUID(uid);

Comments

This answer show how to accomplish that:
https://www.limilabs.com/qa/2959/add-modify-category-with-imap