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Microsoft Clamps Down on Automatic Mail Forwarding in Exchange Online
Hi TonyRedmond
Before this change, I controlled auto forwarding via a mail flow rule. In this rule I allowed mail forwarding for a specific group of people, but also for a specific recipient domain (emea.teams.ms).
Reason for this was a use case where someone wanted to auto-forward incoming tender mails to specific teams channels, based on the sender of the incoming mail (apparently it's a 1-to-1 relation).
This worked fine until Microsoft flipped the switch but in the new outbound spam policy, under the conditions, I can only set conditions for 'sender is' or ' sender domain is' but I don't want him to be able to auto-forward to just anywhere, I want him to be able to auto-forward only to a specific destination domain.
How can I achieve this within the new rules? 🙂
Steve Hernou You can always revert to the previous behavior and allow mail forwarding by all users and use your mail flow rule as before. The point about the change is that it improves the security of tenants where people might not have thought through the ramifications of auto forwarding. You have because you have built a rule to control the process, so why not just go back to it?
TonyRedmond , aha, looks like I misinterpreted the change. I thought the new system negated the mail flow rule option and you had to use the outbound spam policy now.
So I can just set the default anti-spam policy to allow auto forwarding and then still my mail flow rule will be enforced and block all except what's defined in the mail flow rule.
Thank you very much for the clarification 🙂