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Microsoft Purview - Sensitivity Auto-Label email attachments
I feel like this shouldn't be that hard. I have a shared mailbox, and all email attachments in/out of the mailbox need auto labeled. I have an auto-label policy/rule setup for email in/out of the mai...
IvanWilson Thanks for the response! No encryption requirement, only sensitivity labels. I would like received/sent email attachments to be automatically labeled. I have the automatic label policy working for the email itself, but not the attachments.
For example, when the mailbox receives an email with a word document attached, the Word document should have a sensitivity label applied. Same goes for sending a document as an attachment.
As far as I know, that is not supported. The label would need to be assigned to the document before it is attached to the email or after the attachment has been downloaded.
You can have emails inherit labels from attachments, but not the other way round.
You can have emails inherit labels from attachments, but not the other way round.