{"id":5543,"date":"2022-02-08T21:42:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T21:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=5543"},"modified":"2022-02-08T21:42:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T21:42:56","slug":"mimecast-relaying-from-external-to-external-using-a-forward-external-relay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/research\/mimecast-relaying-from-external-to-external-using-a-forward-external-relay","title":{"rendered":"Mimecast &#8211; Relaying from External to External using a forward ( External Relay )"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you setup a Forward for a user to an external user , and a external party email&#8217;s that user , then this counts as external to external which is an external Relay which is not allowed most of the time due to spam.<\/p><p>In order f0r this to work in Mimecast you would need to add the external recipient in this case &#8216;external@gmail.com&#8217; to the &#8216;Relay&#8217; profile group in administration&gt; directories&gt; profile groups, as the below default blocked sender policy is set to &#8216;take no action&#8217; on this group and allows an external sender to send to an external recipient as long as the recipient is in this relay profile group.\u00a0<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"826\" height=\"730\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5544  img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/img_6202e305113e7.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/img_6202e305113e7.png 826w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/img_6202e305113e7-300x265.png 300w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/img_6202e305113e7-768x679.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 826px) 100vw, 826px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you setup a Forward for a user to an external user , and a external party email&#8217;s that user , then this counts as external to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2871,3722,1797,3721],"class_list":["post-5543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-external","tag-external-to-external","tag-mimecast","tag-relay"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5546,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543\/revisions\/5546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}