Disable Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) in Outlook
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User
Category
Microsoft Outlook 2016 > Outlook Options > Mail Format > International Options
Supported on
Windows7

By default, Outlook supports Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) for SMTP addresses in Outlook if Windows provides the appropriate support for this feature. You can disable IDN support so that Punycode rather than native characters are used for rendering SMTP addresses. You might choose to disable IDN support in Outlook if you do not typically expect non-ASCII characters in SMTP addresses. This setting does not affect the support of IDN in URLs.

Internal name
L_DisableInternationalizedDomainNamesIDNinOutlook
Policy ID
e523d6e0486d
Elements
0

Registry values

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ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
User
Path
software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\outlook\options\general
Value name
disableidn
REG_DWORD
HKCU
1
HKCU
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · User
Path
software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\outlook\options\general
Value name
disableidn
Hive
HKCU
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

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