Applies to: Exchange Server 2013
Topic Last Modified: 2012-10-15
By default, Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 doesn’t allow you to send mail outside of your domain. To send mail outside your domain, you need to create a Send connector.
Interested in scenarios where this procedure is used? See the following topics:
What do you need to know before you begin?
- Estimated time to complete: 15 minutes
- You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this
procedure or procedures. To see what permissions you need, see the
"Send connectors" entry in the Mail Flow
Permissions topic.
- See Deploy a
New Installation of Exchange 2013 if you are beginning your
installation. After the installation you can use the steps in this
topic to create your outbound connector.
- For information about keyboard shortcuts that may apply to the
procedures in this topic, see Keyboard Shortcuts in
the Exchange Admin Center.
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What do you want to do?
Use the EAC to create a send connector for email sent to the Internet
- In the EAC, navigate to Mail flow > Send
connectors, and then click Add
.
- In the New send connector wizard, specify a name for the
send connector and then select Internet for the Type.
Click Next.
- Verify that MX record associated with recipient domain
is selected, which specifies that the connector uses the domain
name system (DNS) to route mail. Click Next.
- Under Address space, click Add . In the Add domain window, make sure SMTP is
listed as the Type. For Fully Qualified Domain Name
(FQDN), enter *, which indicates that this send connector
applies to messages addressed to any domain. Click Save.
- Make sure Scoped send connector is not selected and then
click Next.
- For Source server, click Add . In the Select a server window, select a Mailbox
server that will be used to send mail to the Internet via the
Client Access server and click Add . After you've selected the server, click Add
. Click OK.
- Click Finish.
Once you have created the Send connector, it appears in the Send connector list.
Use the Shell to route mail through the Client Access server
In Exchange 2013 you can use the
FrontendProxyEnabled parameter of the
Set-SendConnector cmdlet to route outbound messages through
the Client Access server. This parameter is not set to
$true by default, but in many cases it can consolidate
and simplify mail flow, especially if you are working with an
environment with a large number of messaging servers.
This example sets the FrontendProxyEnabled
parameter to $true on a Send connector.
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Set-SendConnector "Contoso.com Send Connector" -FrontendProxyEnabled $true |
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How do you know this worked?
To verify that you have successfully created a Send Connector for email sent to the Internet, send mail from one of your users to an outside recipient and verify that the message arrives successfully.