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Delivery Restrictions in Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise SP2 not working
We are running Exchange 2003 SP2 Enterprise on a Windows 2003 SP1 box (all current updates). This is the only server in our company and has but a single SMTP connector to our e-mail filtering software which handles all actual sending and receiving of internet e-mail.
Per the suggested article in other posts (http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/MF009.html) I have configured a mail enabled security group to restrict users from sending over the SMTP connector. I added the group to the reject portion on the connector, made the necessary registry changes and restarted the services. Didn't work. I enabled the connection and sender filtering on the virtual server and restarted the virtual connector, and even rebooted the server to no avail. I have followed the directions in the article exactly, but the account I am testing with can send freely over the only SMTP connector we have. I am at a loss. We need to find a relatively easy and foolproof way to stop users who should not be able to send external e-mail, and this looked like the right solution.
Please help!
Per the suggested article in other posts (http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/MF009.html) I have configured a mail enabled security group to restrict users from sending over the SMTP connector. I added the group to the reject portion on the connector, made the necessary registry changes and restarted the services. Didn't work. I enabled the connection and sender filtering on the virtual server and restarted the virtual connector, and even rebooted the server to no avail. I have followed the directions in the article exactly, but the account I am testing with can send freely over the only SMTP connector we have. I am at a loss. We need to find a relatively easy and foolproof way to stop users who should not be able to send external e-mail, and this looked like the right solution.
Please help!
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21778089/Restrict-Internet-Mail-Not-working.html
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Sorry, did see that. I guess I should have been more specific. My comment 'made the necessary registry changes and restarted the services' was exactly that issue. I did the registry change per Q277872, restarted the 2 services as directed and it still does not work.
did u restart the server????
one more thing ....when setting up restriction u must choose "by default messages from everyone is accepted" and then choose reject messages from" and then add
the users or groups.....the other way around will not work....
the users or groups.....the other way around will not work....
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The server has been restarted since I made the changes. I have tried the restrictions settings both ways with default-everyone-accepted and reject and also with default-everyone-rejected and accept, and neither have any impact on the message flow. Thanks.
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Figured it out. I had not configured my SMTP connector for all address spaces. So most of the messages were not going through it. Your comment about making sure the messages were routing through the connector pointed me in the right direction, so the points are yours. Thanks for your help.
SolomonPC,glad to hear u have solved ur problem
take care and good luck.
take care and good luck.