Perform the basic email functions such as send and receive emails using the features available in Workspace ONE Boxer.
Compose Emails
Begin writing an email to someone using the Compose icon () at the bottom-right corner of your Inbox mail view screen. You can tap the icons at the bottom banner of the compose screen to perform actions or access additional functionality. If configured by your administrator, Boxer displays a warning when adding recipients from external domains, select ‘Proceed’ to send the email or select ‘Cancel’ to return to the Compose menu. Workspace ONE Boxer displays a Warning message when sending emails and meeting invites to invalid email addresses. Select ‘Send’ to continue the action or ‘Cancel’ to return to the Compose menu.
Press and hold the content to cut, copy, paste, or replace the selected term or the content.
The following table lists the icons used for performing various email functions and their respective function descriptions:
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Move back to the Inbox folder view. |
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Send an email. |
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Tap to discard the message or to save it as a draft in the Draft folder to send later or to access app settings. |
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Tap and choose the IRM policies that you want to enforce on email while sending. |
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Tap to:
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Tap to insert quick responses into the message body while composing emails. Navigate to Settings > Mail > Quick Templates to edit or add new quick responses. |
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Attach photos, documents, audios, and videos from your device or from Cloud Drives. The default behavior ofWorkspace ONE Boxer is to send attachments of any size. If the attachment is too large, then the Unable to send one or more message. An attachment is too large to be processed error displays and the email is saved in your Outbox. If restricted by your administrator, you cannot attach files from photo gallery and third-party sources. |
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If S/MIME is enabled and the certificates are installed on your device, tap to sign the emails sent from the device. |
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If S/MIME is enabled and the certificates are installed on your device, tap to encrypt emails sent from the device. |
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Enable email classification using security levels. For example, the following classifications can be configured in the increasing order of security:
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Mark an Email as High Importance
You can let your email recipients know the email you sent needs urgent attention by marking the email as high importance.
While composing, forwarding, or replying to an email from Boxer, you can set the email as high importance by tapping the icon on the Subject box. Your recipients can view the high importance indicator in the email list view and the email's detailed view.
View Emails
When you receive an email, you can read it and perform several actions on that email. You can reply, forward, delete, archive, or shift the email message to a different folder. You can also tap hold an email message on the Inbox list view to see a preview and then press longer to open the email message.
Listed are the available icons using which you can perform actions on your email.
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Move back to the Inbox folder view. |
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Delete* email from the Inbox. |
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Move the unimportant emails to Archive* folder. |
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Move the email to your selected folder. |
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Use the Action Grid to perform other actions on an email. |
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Flag the email to find it quickly in the email list or to display under the Flagged folder. |
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Reply to the sender, reply to all senders, forward an email, flag an email, mark an email as unread, delete an email. |
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Indicates that the email is Information Rights Management (IRM)-enabled. Tap to view the IRM security policies or restrictions along with other details of restrictions applied on the email. |
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Tap the icon to download attachments from the email. View all the downloaded attachments from the Files (![]() |
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View emails larger than 200KB. |
View IRM-enabled Emails

- Edit
- Reply
- Reply All
- Forward
- Copy-Paste
- Modify recipients
- Extract
- Export
- Content Expiry Date
Recognize the S/MIME Signed and Encrypted Emails
To help you differentiate between normal emails and the S/MIME enabled emails, S/MIME enabled emails are displayed with S/MIME icons within the Inbox List view.
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The email is signed with S/MIME certificate. |
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The email is encrypted using S/MIME. |
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The email is signed and encrypted using S/MIME. |
Other Features
- Press and hold an email message to copy and paste it into the application.
- If restricted by your administrator, you cannot copy data from the Workspace ONE Boxer application and paste anywhere outside the application.
- Workspace ONE Boxer supports accessibility features such as Text to Speech. Enable Workspace ONE Boxer in the device Accessibility or Text to Speech settings on your device to read out the information that is on your screen.
- If enabled by your administrator, you can copy data from outside the application and paste into the Workspace ONE Boxer application.
- If your email message has contact number details, tap hold on the number to immediately dial it.
- If restricted by your administrator, attachments may open through the VMware Workspace ONE Content and other VMware approved apps. Hyperlinks may open only through the Workspace ONE Web.
- If configured by your administrator, you can preview emails and their attachments within Workspace ONE Boxer.
- On the attachment preview screen, the Share icon is unavailable. When you tap the Share icon, a toast message displays Disabled by your admin.
- After performing an action on an email while viewing it, you can have Workspace ONE Boxer either advance to the next message, the previous message, or return to the conversation list. This setting can be configured from Mail settings (navigate to Settings > Mail > More mail settings > Auto Advance).