Lets see how to create a relay connector (Anonymous relay) in Exchange 2013.
What is relay in simple terms –
Email relaying is using an email server to send email that did not originate on the
email server.
Most Commonly used for fax servers, CRM , Email Routing from different forests etc..
Step 1 –
Login to Exchange Control Panel . https://servername/ecp
Step 2 –
Its highly recommended not to touch the default connectors . Or Create any connector on the Hub Transport role
Choose the + Sign
Step 3 –
Enter a Friendly Name , Choose the role “Front End Transport”
Choose Type Custom
Frequent Exchange Admin Mistakes –
https://www.azure365pro.com/exchange-2013-transport-service-is-not-starting1067-error/
Step 4 –
Leave this part Unchanged ,
Step 5 –
Take off the full range , Assign the application IP which needs access to relay through this mail server.
Click Finish and get the connector Created
Step 6 –
Now open the properties of connector – (Just double click on it )
Or Use Powershell –
New-ReceiveConnector -Name "Relay" -RemoteIPRanges ( "10.128.57.2" , "10.128.57.3" ) -TransportRole "FrontendTransport" -Bindings ( "0.0.0.0:25" ) -Usage "Custom" -Server "Exch2013A.azure365pro.com" |
Set-ReceiveConnector -Identity "Servername\Relay" -PermissionGroups "AnonymousUsers" |
Step 7 –
To Complete this task . you got to allow to accept anonymous connections in the connector.
One Exchange Management Shell – Run
Get-ReceiveConnector "Relay Connector Name" | Add-ADPermission -User "NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON" -ExtendedRights "Ms-Exch-SMTP-Accept-Any-Recipient" |
For Example –
Get-ReceiveConnector "ServerName\RelayConnectorname" | Add-ADPermission -User "NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON" -ExtendedRights "Ms-Exch-SMTP-Accept-Any-Recipient" |
Now that Application will be able to relay through Exchange 2013 with ease.
Hey thanks for sharing Satheshwaran; that begins my lessons apart from Admin now
Hi
We set-up with database server. we have two server one with server 2012R2 and exchange 2016 CAS/MBX role and one with SQL 2014 database. we set-up front end Transport Server relay to our database server test it. all connected okay now our database server can send external email from relay connector.
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