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Ed Kenworthy
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Aug 10, 2017
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I have a tenant with 2 domains. Domain.com and Domain.co.uk. They have mail enabled public folders. The issue refers to all public folders but I am using sales@domain.com as an eample here.    When...
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  • VasilMichev's avatar
    VasilMichev
    Aug 10, 2017

    That's a long standing issue with Public folders - their secondary addresses do not flow to the EOP backend, which has the Directory Based Edge Blocking feature. Well, actually a similar issue with O365 groups exists. In a nutshell, the DBEB feature blocks every message addressed to "unknown" recipient. For "regular" object types, it's not a problem. For PFs however, only the primary SMTP Address is synced, so only this alias is recognized by DBEB.

     

    You have two options here:

     

    1) Change the domain to Internal relay. This disables the DBEB feature, however might have other implications, so test before committing to it

    2) Simply "cycle" the aliases - set the secondary one as Primary, wait for say 30 minutes, switch it again.

     

    Now, my memory might be failing me, but I think I recall that the second solution only worked for Groups, sooo in your case I guess there's only one solution. I'll double-check...

Ed Kenworthy's avatar
Ed Kenworthy
Copper Contributor
Aug 10, 2017
Im going to (partially) answer my own question here. Simply adding the relevent domain.co.uk email address to the public folder properties made internal delivery of emails work. My questions still remains however is how have emails sent from external senders been delivered to a mail-enabled public folder called "Sales" with an email address of sales@domain.com when they actually sent it to sales@domain.co.uk. Under accepted domains domain.com (default domain) has a domain type of internal relay and domain.co.uk has a domain type of Authoritative.
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    VasilMichev
    MVP
    Aug 10, 2017

    That's a long standing issue with Public folders - their secondary addresses do not flow to the EOP backend, which has the Directory Based Edge Blocking feature. Well, actually a similar issue with O365 groups exists. In a nutshell, the DBEB feature blocks every message addressed to "unknown" recipient. For "regular" object types, it's not a problem. For PFs however, only the primary SMTP Address is synced, so only this alias is recognized by DBEB.

     

    You have two options here:

     

    1) Change the domain to Internal relay. This disables the DBEB feature, however might have other implications, so test before committing to it

    2) Simply "cycle" the aliases - set the secondary one as Primary, wait for say 30 minutes, switch it again.

     

    Now, my memory might be failing me, but I think I recall that the second solution only worked for Groups, sooo in your case I guess there's only one solution. I'll double-check...

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