#Mdaemon open relay how to
More information how to configure an Exchange Server to receive mail from Internet can be seen on this article. We just need to configure the Default Receive Connector to accept anonymous users, like we have just done in the previous step.
The second step is to configure Exchange Server 2007 to receive mails from the Internet, this configuration is straight forward process. Get-ReceiveConnector “MDaemon Receive Connector” | Add-ADPermission –User “NT Authority\Anonymous Logon”-ExtendedRights:ms-exch-SMTP-Accept-Any-Recipientīe extremely careful with the cmdlet above, if you configure that on your Receive Connector facing the Internet you will be allowing any external host to use your server as an Open Relay Server and your server is going to join a Black List.Īt this point of our article, the new Exchange Server accepts message from MDaemon Server and deliveries the message either internal or external recipients. We can configure Exchange Server to act as relay server to any recipient coming from Mdaemon Server, we can use the following Exchange Management Shell to accomplish our goal: So far our new Receive Connector will allow Mdaemon Server to deliver local messages in Exchange Server 2007, however it will not allow Mdaemon Server to use our Exchange Server as relay server for Internet recipients. Double click on the new receive connector, and click on Permissions Groups tab and tick the option Anonymous users and click on OK. The Receive Connector was created however we still have some stuff to do.