[kdepim] [Bug 508675] New: [Akonadi EWS] Support for Outlook categories (color labels)

[dino]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=508675

            Bug ID: 508675
           Summary: [Akonadi EWS] Support for Outlook categories (color
                    labels)
    Classification: Applications
           Product: kdepim
      Version First 6.5.0
       Reported In:
          Platform: CachyOS
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: dino.moser at hotmail.it
  Target Milestone: ---

Description:
Currently Akonadi-EWS is able to synchronize mail, folders, contacts,
calendars, and tasks, but it does not synchronize Outlook categories (color
labels assigned to messages, contacts, events).
Outlook categories are widely used in enterprise environments to classify and
highlight messages, so their absence is a significant limitation when using
KMail with an Exchange/Outlook account.

Steps to reproduce:

In Outlook (desktop or web), assign a category (with a color) to a message.

Synchronize the same account in KMail using Akonadi-EWS.

The message is received, but the category is missing.

Expected result:
KMail should display the category (or map it to a local tag) so that users can
see the same color-coding/labels as in Outlook.

Actual result:
Categories are not synchronized or displayed.

Additional information / Proposal:

Categories are stored in MAPI, but Exchange also exposes them via EWS item
properties (Categories property).

It would be useful to map Outlook categories to Akonadi tags or labels.

Even partial support (read-only) would already be valuable.

If full category synchronization is complex, a first step could be mapping only
the category names as text tags, without colors.

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