MAPI Properties?

[Bob Miller]

The last time I investigated that was a couple years ago, but according 
to my understanding the IMAP protocol does not support the colour 
categories provided by Outlook, and therefore anything Outlook does in 
that respect is a "Local Only" feature.  That is, the colour categories 
cannot be stored by an IMAP server, nor shared via the IMAP protocol 
between multiple Outlook clients...

On 15-10-25 10:34 PM, Mark Foley wrote:
> I'm using Dovceot/IMAP on Linux and Outlook clients on WIN7 workstations.  Mail
> on Linux is stored in Maildir format.
>
> I'm searching for where Outook keeps its information on color categories in
> IMAP. According to Diane Poremsky at slipstick.com, "Outlook stores it in the
> mapi properties of each message. If you use MFCMAPI to viuw the messages, you'll
> see the properties." MAPI is a Windows thing and the recommended MFCMAPI is for
> viewing these properties in Exchange. Not what I can use.
>
> Outlook must be storing these properties somewhere in the Dovecot/IMAP system as
> color categories can be set from Outlook. Can someone tell me where to look for
> these properties?
>
> THX - Mark
>