curl --request POST \
  --url https://console.mermail.app/api/v1/mailboxes/{mailboxId}/custom-labels \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'x-api-key: <api-key>' \
  --data '
{
  "name": "VIP",
  "rules": "from:[email protected]"
}
'

import requests

url = "https://console.mermail.app/api/v1/mailboxes/{mailboxId}/custom-labels"

payload = {
    "name": "VIP",
    "rules": "from:[email protected]"
}
headers = {
    "x-api-key": "<api-key>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {'x-api-key': '<api-key>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({name: 'VIP', rules: 'from:[email protected]'})
};

fetch('https://console.mermail.app/api/v1/mailboxes/{mailboxId}/custom-labels', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://console.mermail.app/api/v1/mailboxes/{mailboxId}/custom-labels",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'name' => 'VIP',
    'rules' => 'from:[email protected]'
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Content-Type: application/json",
    "x-api-key: <api-key>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://console.mermail.app/api/v1/mailboxes/{mailboxId}/custom-labels"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"name\": \"VIP\",\n  \"rules\": \"from:[email protected]\"\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("x-api-key", "<api-key>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://console.mermail.app/api/v1/mailboxes/{mailboxId}/custom-labels")
  .header("x-api-key", "<api-key>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"name\": \"VIP\",\n  \"rules\": \"from:[email protected]\"\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://console.mermail.app/api/v1/mailboxes/{mailboxId}/custom-labels")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["x-api-key"] = '<api-key>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"name\": \"VIP\",\n  \"rules\": \"from:[email protected]\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "id": "lbl_1",
  "mailbox_id": "[email protected]",
  "name": "VIP",
  "slug": "vip",
  "rules": "from:[email protected]",
  "color": "#43c9cb",
  "sort_order": 0,
  "created_at": "2026-07-14T09:00:00.000Z",
  "updated_at": "2026-07-14T09:00:00.000Z"
}

{
  "error": "Unauthorized"
}

{
  "error": "Invalid request"
}

{
  "error": "Forbidden"
}

{
  "error": "Too many requests"
}