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rayhwang
Jul 04, 2024Copper Contributor
High Volume Email Account and Conditional Access
Hi all, We've set up a HVE account, and set up a Conditional Access Policy targeting this account to block sign-in to all cloud apps for any location except for the excluded IP address ranges. A...
_on_Fire
Mar 27, 2025Copper Contributor
What I've found:
HVE accounts are visible in Entra ID and ARE affected by Conditional Access policies.
I got no updates in the Entra sign-in logs when unsuccessfully first testing with Send-MailMessage and got "535 5.7.139 Authentication unsuccessful" errors . To fix this I had to create a custom Authentication Policy in Exchange Online with AllowBasicAuthSmtp set to true and attach it to the HVE account as described on https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/clients-and-mobile-in-exchange-online/disable-basic-authentication-in-exchange-online.
- FikusirJul 16, 2025Copper Contributor
Hi, is that working even if you still use CA to block Legacy auth? Thank you