Mail Flow connectors are used to enable mail flow between your Office 365 / Exchange environment and the Archive service. They are used to 'bypass' any unnecessary hops for the delivery of traffic between your mail service and the archive service. (for example mail filtering such as AV/SPAM).
For View Archiving, we recommend the application of the following:
Exchange Admin Centre/Control Panel
Mail Flow --> Connectors
Add new Connector (+)
Select From 'Office 365' or 'Your Organizations mail server', whichever is applicable to you
Select To 'Partner Organization'
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Name the connector appropriately:Next
Next
Using the details required to set up the journal rule, the unique mailbox address for your archive account, you will need to copy the DOMAIN details. These will look something similar to this EXAMPLE: uniquemailboxaddress@eu1.journaladdress.com (please note that these addresses are different depending on the region / service your account is using so very important to identify the correct one in the specific archive account)
Copy the domain element . eu1.journaladdress.com, this will be used for the next part of the connector configuration
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Using the domain of the unique mailbox address, look up the appointed DNS record for the MX records. This will be the smart host to use to deliver the traffic. You will need this to set 'route email through these smart hosts' . An example is given below.
dig mx eu1.journaladdress.com
; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> mx eu1.journaladdress.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 27124
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;eu1.journaladdress.com. IN MX
;; ANSWER SECTION:
eu1.journaladdress.com. 600 IN MX 10 lb-eu1.journaladdress.com.
;; Query time: 40 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.1#53(192.168.1.1)
;; WHEN: Tue Apr 23 14:39:47 BST 2019
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 74
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save the entry;
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next
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You will need to confirm the settings are correct, to do this click the +, and add your archive unique mailbox address, then click validate
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Now click validate
Microsoft will start a process to confirm that the connector will work with the specific criteria that has been applied. This could take a minute or two
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Once completed the results will be shown if successful.
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If successful, save the connector, if it failed, review all the above settings to ensure they were applied correctly.
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