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Introduction |
So you just finished installing Exchange Server 2013
and tried to send your first email to an external
email domain, such as Google/Hotmail/Yahoo, but
you found out that the email was never received.
Exchange Server 2013 is similar to 2010, where it is
installed by default without a Send Connector. In
order to be able to send emails to other domains,
you will need to setup one.
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In Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, a
Send connector controls the flow of outbound messages to
the receiving server. They are configured on Mailbox
servers running the Transport service. Most commonly,
you configure a Send connector to send outbound email
messages to a smart host or directly to their recipient,
using DNS.
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Login into
Exchange Admin Center
, and from
the left side pane, click on Mail Flow
and then click on send connectors

- Under send
connectors, click the Add button
to create a new send connector

- The new send
connector wizard will open, where you
have to give it a name and choose a
Type appropriate to your
connection scenario. The type determines
the default permission sets that are
assigned on the connector and grants
those permissions to trusted security
principals. Security principals include
users, computers, and security groups.
For the Name, give it a
name as its type, I will type Internet
for the Name. And for the Type,
select Internet
. Then click next

- In the Send
Connector Network setting page, you have
two options for routing emails. Either
directly through DNS or it will be
redirected to a Smart Host such as
Barracuda Spam and Virus Firewall.

If you don't have a smart host, then
select MX record associate with
recipient domain and then click
next ( Jump to Point #
6, else if you have a smart host, then
continue reading Point # 5)

- In some situations you may want to route
email through a third-party smart host,
such as in an instance where you have a
network appliance that you want to
perform policy checks on outbound
messages. If you do have a smart host,
then :
Select Route mail through smart
hosts, and then click
button.
In the Add smart host window, specify
the IP address , or the fully qualified
domain name (FQDN) for your Smart Host.
Then click save.

Click next to continue

For Smart host authentication, choose
the type of authentication required by
the smart host. If you choose Basic
authentication, you must provide a user
name and password. Then click
next

- Under Address space, click
. In the Add domain window, make sure SMTP is listed as the Type. For Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN),
type * to specify that this send connector applies to messages sent to
any domain. Click
save


Click
next to continue

- For Source server,
click
. In the Select a server window, choose a server
by highlighting it and clicking
add, then click OK


The selected server(s) will be
displayed, click
finish

- The created
outbound send
connector will be listed. Now trying
sending an email to an external domain (
for example Google/Hotmail/Yahoo ) and
this time your emails will be delivered
to the recipient.

Summary
Exchange 2013 Mailbox servers
running the Transport service require Send connectors to
deliver messages to the next hop on the way to their
destination. Send connectors that are created on Mailbox
servers are stored in Active Directory and are available
to all Mailbox servers running the Transport service in
the organization
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