{"id":3387,"date":"2025-01-02T10:36:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T15:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=3387"},"modified":"2025-01-02T10:36:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T15:36:41","slug":"email-to-office365-from-internal-devices-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=3387","title":{"rendered":"Email to Office365 from Internal devices 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Microsoft is making changes and not keeping their documentation up to date<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Requirements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DNS\/<strong>SPF <\/strong>record must include the PUBLIC IP address or DNS name where the email will be coming from.  You can check using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsmyip.org\/\">https:\/\/www.whatsmyip.org\/<\/a>  and comparing to <a href=\"https:\/\/mxtoolbox.com\/spf.aspx\">https:\/\/mxtoolbox.com\/spf.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Create a <strong>CONNECTOR <\/strong>in Office365.  Exchange Admin center, Mail Flow, Connectors, Add a connector, Your organizations email server, Next, Add a Descriptive Name, Check Turn It ON, Next, By verifying that the IP ADDRESS&#8230;, enter your PUBLIC IP from the previous step, Click <strong>+<\/strong>, Next, Create Connector<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Newer printers and devices support authenticated and encrypted emails but older devices do not.  In this case you will need some software to relay emails.  Cheapest+easiest method I have found is to use NextCloud, which is a complete OS+Software combined, so no Windows license, no software license.  If you are worried about reliability, make 2, it&#8217;s the same price.  Has a web GUI to keep it simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NextCloud<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Administration setting, Basic settings, Email server<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Send mode: SMTP<br>Encryption: None\/StartTLS<br>From Address: must be a valid address, I used a group name as that doesn&#8217;t cost extra<br>Server Address: use the format   yourdomain-ext.mail.protection.outlook.com<br>Authentication Required: Yes<br>Credentials:  use the from address, if different the Credentials account will need send-as permission to the From account, and that is extra work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click test and NextCloud will send an email to the From address<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is making changes and not keeping their documentation up to date Requirements: DNS\/SPF record must include the PUBLIC IP address or DNS name where the email will be coming&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3388,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387\/revisions\/3388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}