The Email settings configure email account settings on a Windows device.
The following table describes the email settings that you can configure on a Windows device:
| Policy setting | Description | Supported devices |
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| Configure for type | The protocol (IMAP or POP) that is used to retrieve email messages from the mail server. |
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| Account display name | The name of the email account. |
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| Username | The user account name. Leave this field blank to use the enrollment information to populate the user's user name. If the account user name is the same as the email address (such as Office365 or HCL Traveler), use %email% as the variable. |
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| Email address | The email account that is configured for the device. Leave this field blank to use enrollment information to populate the user's email address. |
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| User display name | The name of the user of the device. |
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| Mail server host name (for incoming mail) | The host name of the mail server that is used for incoming email messages. |
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| Use SSL (for incoming mails) | Incoming email messages can use SSL encryption. |
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| Mail server hostname (for outgoing mail) | The host name of the mail server that is used for outgoing email messages. |
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| Use SSL (for outgoing emails) | Outgoing email messages can use SSL encryption. |
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| Authentication required (for outgoing) | Whether authentication is needed for a device to send outgoing email messages. |
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| Download emails from | Download emails on the device from the past seven days, past two weeks, past month, or download emails anytime. |
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| Email sync frequency | Synchronizes the email mailbox on the device every fifteen minutes, thirty minutes, 1 hour, two hours, or manually synchronizes the email mailbox on the device as needed. |
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| Maximum email size (KB) for auto download | Select the maximum email size that can be downloaded automatically. Supported email size values are 0.5, 1, 2, 5, 20, 50 KB. Emails that exceed the specified limit are truncated. | Windows Phone |
| Maximum attachment size (KB) for auto download | Select the maximum email attachment size that can be downloaded automatically. Supported attachment mail size values are 0, 25, 50, 125, 250 KB. Email attachments that exceed the specified limit are truncated. This setting applies to the IMAP email profile. |
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| Always use cellular data for sync | If this setting is enabled, devices use only the cellular data network for synchronization. A wifi network is not used for synchronization. |
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| Calendar server host name | The host name of the calendar server. |
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| Use SSL (For calendar server connections) | Calendar server connections can use SSL encryption. |
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| Contact server host name | The host name of the contact server. |
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| Use SSL (For contact server connections) | The contact server can use SSL encryption. |
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| Sync all email content | All email content is synchronized on the device. |
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