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title: Account
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<h2>Summary</h2>

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  <p><p>The Account model represents a Account served by the Nylas Platform API.
Every object on the Nylas platform exists within a Account, which typically represents
an email account.</p>
<p>For more information about Accounts on the Nylas Platform, read the
<a href="https://nylas.com/docs/api#Account">Account API Documentation</a></p>
<h2 id="attributes">Attributes</h2>
<p><code>name</code>: <a href='attributestring.html'>AttributeString</a> The name of the Account.</p>
<p><code>provider</code>: <a href='attributestring.html'>AttributeString</a> The Account&#39;s mail provider  (ie: <code>gmail</code>)</p>
<p><code>emailAddress</code>: <a href='attributestring.html'>AttributeString</a> The Account&#39;s email address
(ie: <code>ben@nylas.com</code>). Queryable.</p>
<p><code>organizationUnit</code>: <a href='attributestring.html'>AttributeString</a> Either &quot;label&quot; or &quot;folder&quot;.
Depending on the provider, the account may be organized by folders or
labels.</p>
<p>This class also inherits attributes from <a href='model.html'>Model</a></p>
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    <h3>Instance Methods</h3>

    <h4 id=usesLabels class="function-name">
      usesLabels(<span class="args"></span>) <a href="#usesLabels" class="link"></a>
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    <div class="function-description markdown-from-sourecode">
      <p><p>The current organization_unit used by the account. </p>
    </p>
    </div>


    <h4 id=displayProvider class="function-name">
      displayProvider(<span class="args"></span>) <a href="#displayProvider" class="link"></a>
    </h4>

    <div class="function-description markdown-from-sourecode">
      <p></p>
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        <strong>Returns</strong>
        <table class="arguments">
          <tr>
            <th>Return Values</th>
          </tr>
          <tr><td class="markdown-from-sourecode"><p>Returns the localized, properly capitalized provider name,
    like Gmail, Exchange, or Outlook 365</p>
    </td></tr>
        </table>