Resetting / purging email color categories

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#1

I got eM Client for years, and often changed of computer too, the whole being linked to a Gmail account and a few pop accounts.

My color categories are a real mess (my guilt) and if you change the theme, some choices are not visible enough (from black theme to a clear one for example)   :

  1. When I right click on a mail, to “categorize”, I got a scolling list with a ton of old categories from previous install (or so it seems - no edit possibility)

  2. When I go to tools / categories, I got the basic eM Client ones (with no custom name)

  3. If I click on the category in a mail (not right click, but left click), I got the selected categories (that can be unselected but not edited)

So, …  how is it possible to reset all the colors categories, to re-categorize everything right ?

Thank you !  

#2

Hello Gilles,
I suggest you are using the newest version 7. We treat Gmail’s labels differently now - the same way they work on webmail. As both folder and a category. That’s why you cannot edit them locally in eM Client.
The colors are assigned randomly at this time. We are aware of this and plan to find a workaround.
At this time you can create a category of a same name as your Gmail folder in the local mail categories and assign a color to it. It will be paired with your existing Gmail label and adopt the color (this only works for main folders though, not subfolders).

Regards,
Olivia

#3

Hello Olivia, thanks for the tips. 

In fact I work with eM categories only (I mean, it doesn’t matter if Gmail categories are different and I override GMail categories config). 

I use the 7 version, but my problem is that I want to “erase” all previous color categories to re-categorize everything (a kind of “default value”).

For example, along the years I have a “important” category, and while I change computer, etc, I surely created 1 or 2 more “important” category. So today some mails comees with 3 “important” flags with different colors. LOL

Regards

Gilles