Mapping Flags (Tags, Labels) Between Open-Xchange (OX) App Suite (Webmail) UI and Mozilla Thunderbird
Both Thunderbird (TB) and OX App Suite (OX AS) provide message flagging features. While OX AS has only ten predefined flags named by colors, Thunderbird allows an arbitrary number of flags. The flags in OX AS cannot be customized by the user and are localized for display, but their underlying values are well defined and language agnostic.
Through reverse engineering via IMAP, I discovered that these flags are named from $cl_0 through $cl_10. IMAP allows querying
the FLAGS set in addition to the standard IMAP flags. All additional flags are custom and not standardized.
Here’s an example of probing via IMAP (C: denotes client, S: denotes server):