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Abstract

MaaS360 Secure Mail receives notifications about email and calendar activity when the app is in the background or terminated by the user.

Content

Notifications display a text message, play a sound, and update the badge count when data is available for Secure Mail app. MaaS360 supports local, remote, and push notifications to deliver notifications to the Secure Mail app.

When the app is active

When the app enters background

When the app is terminated by a user

When the app is terminated by OS

Local

Notifications are delivered.

The notifications are delivered when the user launches the app or MaaS360 portal sends silent notifications once in an hour to wake the app.

The notifications are not delivered when the app is terminated by the user.

The MaaS360 app does not sync notifications until the user launches or MaaS360 portal sends a silent notification.

Remote

Notifications are delivered.

MaaS360 Cloud Extender delivers notifications to the app.

MaaS360 Cloud Extender delivers notifications to the app.

MaaS360 Cloud Extender delivers notifications to the app.

Push

Notifications are delivered.

MaaS360 portal periodically wakes up the app by the means of a silent notification. The app syncs mails when it is active.

The notifications are not delivered.

The MaaS360 portal periodically wakes up the app by the means of a silent notification. The app syncs mails when it is active.

How do notifications work?

The notifications are received for the following activities in MaaS360 app:

  • New mail
  • Sent mail
  • New calendar meeting request
  • Meeting update
  • Meeting cancellation
  • Meeting reminders
  • To-do reminders

The badge count on MaaS360, Secure Mail, and Calendar icons indicates the total number of unattended emails, calendar items, and reminders available for those apps. The badge count is automatically updated if the emails are read on other devices.

Push notifications

The Maas360 portal uses Exchange Web Services (EWS) to send a notification to the device which wakes the app in the background to sync with the mail server. Unlike local notifications, the remote notifications are delivered even though the Secure Mail app enters the background. When the app is in the background, the MaaS360 portal periodically wakes up the app by the means of a silent notification to deliver the notifications to the device. The notifications are delivered immediately if the mailbox receives more than 20 emails after the previous notification was sent. If the mailbox receives less than 20 emails while the app is in the background, the notifications are delivered 5 minutes after the previous notification was sent.

Note:

  • The push notifications are only supported for the primary email account.
  • Supported on following servers: O365, Exchange 2010, 2013, and 2016 and supported on iOS 3.85+ devices.

The delivery of notifications is not a certainty when the app enters background or terminated by the OS in the following cases and is beyond the scope of MaaS360:

  • The device's battery is low.
  • The MaaS360 app is not used frequently.
  • A poor network connection.

Configuring Secure Mail for push notifications

Follow these steps to enable push notifications for Secure Mail:

Note: The policy settings are not available by default. Contact MaaS360 support team to enable this feature for your account.

  1. Navigate to Security > Policies and then open a persona policy.
  2. Navigate to Email > Configuration and select Use Exchange Web Services > Enable Subscription-Based Notifications.

Folder-level notifications

Users can enable push notifications for folders in the mailbox that are marked for auto-sync.

To enable push notifications for auto-sync folders,

1. Navigate to MaaS360 Settings > Notifications, Badges > Mail > Folder Level Notifications.

2. Select All.

Remote notifications

MaaS360 uses MaaS360 Cloud Extender to send push notifications to the intended devices through Apple Push Notification Services. When the remote notifications are enabled, the notifications are delivered even though the device enters the background or terminated.

Local notifications

The local notifications are not managed by MaaS360 Cloud Extender. The notifications are configured locally, so if the Secure Mail app is active, the notifications are always delivered to the device. If the Secure Mail app is the background or terminated by the user, the app does not receive the notifications until the user manually launches the app.

Enabling local notifications

To enable local notifications,

  1. Navigate to Security > Policies.
  2. Open Persona policy > Workplace > Security > Configure Other Settings > Advanced Configuration Details.
  3. Provide the key iOSEnableRealTimeLocalNotifications and value yes against it.

Note: When local notifications are enabled, real-time notifications must be disabled.

To disable real-time notifications,

  1. Navigate to Security > Policies.
  2. Open Persona policy > Email > Configuration.
  3. Clear the Enable Real-Time Notification checkbox.

Local notification settings

MaaS360 allows you to configure notifications for Secure Mail and Calendar apps through MaaS360 app.

Secure Mail Notifications

You can configure email notifications to get alerts on your phone when you receive and send emails. MaaS360 allows you to granularly control the notifications by limiting the notifications to emails marked as important, emails received from favorite contacts, and emails that meet subject-line criteria.

MaaS360 supports four types of notification alerts:

  • Text message: Displays an onscreen alert.
  • Badge: Displays badge count on the app’s icon.
  • None: Does not receive any notification.
  • Sound: Plays a sound.

New email notifications

To configure MaaS360 Secure Mail notifications,

  1. Navigate to MaaS360 Settings > Notifications, Badges.
  2. In the Mail section, tap New Mail Text Notifications.
  3. Select what you get notified about from the following options:
  • All: Notifies when an email is received from any of the contacts.
  • Favorites: Notifies when an email is received from favorite contacts.
  • High Priority: Notifies when high priority emails are received.
  • None: Turns-off email text notifications.
  1. Tap Back in the top-right corner.

Result: The Notifications, Badges screen is displayed.

2. Tap New Mail Sound Notifications to play an alert sound for email notifications.

Result: The New Email Sound Notifications screen is displayed.

3. Select a sound notification based on the text notification settings.

Subject-line based email notifications

You can limit your notifications to emails that meet the subject-line criteria. For example, you can receive a different email notification when the incoming email subject contains “MaaS360”.

To create a custom notification alert based on subject line strings,

1. Navigate to Settings > Notifications, Badges > enable Subject Line Email Notifications.

Result: The Specify Subject Lines and Sound setting is displayed.

2. Tap Specify Subject Lines and Sound.

Result: The Subject Lines screen is displayed.

3. Tap Create New Subject Line.

4. Create a string that you target for customized email notification.

Note: MaaS360 supports a total of 25 subject lines and each subject line supports a maximum of 256 characters.

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5. Tap Subject Line Sound to select a sound for custom notification.

Note:

  • Users can only select one common sound for all the subject line rules.
  • Users can left-swipe the subject rule and tap Delete to delete that rule.

High priority email notifications

MaaS360 allows you to create custom local notifications for high priority incoming emails. With this support, users can easily track high priority emails as they arrive.

Note:

  • If users receive a high priority email that matches the subject line criteria, the subject line notification takes precedence.
  • This feature is not supported on delegated accounts.

To create a custom notification for high priority emails,

1. Open MaaS360 app > Settings.

2. Tap Notifications, Badges > New Mail Text Notifications > High Priority.

4. In the New Mail Sound Notifications screen, select a custom notification sound in the Favorites/High Priority section.

Calendar Notifications

You can configure calendar notification settings to get alerts when you receive new calendar invite, event reminders, and task reminders.

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To configure calendar notifications,

  1. Navigate to Settings > Notifications, Badges.
  2. In the Calendar section,
  • Select Event Reminders to receive reminders for calendar events, and then select an event reminder sound.
  • Select New Invite Text Notification to receive a text notification when you receive new calendar event invitations, and then select a sound notification.

Task Notifications

You can configure task notification settings to receive sound notifications for task reminders.

To configure task notifications,

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  1. Navigate to Settings > Notifications, Badges.
  2. In the Tasks section, select Task Reminders, and then select a reminder sound notification.

App badge count

The badge number on the Mail, Calendar, and other app icons indicate that new data is available in those apps. The MaaS360 settings allow you to control which apps must show the badge count.

Note: The badge count is updated only when the MaaS360 app is running.

To configure which apps must show badge count,

  1. Navigate to Settings > Notifications, Badges.
  2. Tap App badge count.

Result: The App badge count page appears.

FAQs

Why are remote notifications delayed?

The Secure Mail app does not get Cloud extender remote notifications in real-time, because MaaS360 first authenticates the user credentials against Exchange, syncs the mails from the Exchange server, and passes the email content through APNS before it reaches the devices. The delays in APNS service or email processing in MaaS360 Cloud Extender sometimes affect the email synchronization.

Why are local notifications delayed?

iOS Native Mail app maintains persistent ActiveSync connection with Exchange Server and receives notifications about email and calendar activity in real-time, but the apps other than iOS Native Mail app (such as Secure Mail) cannot run in the background for more than 10 minutes.

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Why do some users receive ghost notifications in case of Remote Notifications?

When the Secure Mail app is inactive, even though an email is synced from the Exchange server, sometimes the notifications to the Secure Mail app are delayed. If that email is accessed from a different device during the delay, the notifications received for that email are sometimes misconceived as ghost notifications. Due to the delay in receiving the latest information, sometimes the incorrect notification badge count is displayed. Mac font best app.

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Modified date:
05 July 2019