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I am going to create a helpdesk email for a department, i.e. [email protected] and they are interested in only allowing particular users to be able to send to it. I know that I can limit the address to not appearing in the address book and can easily rescrict to internal senders. How would I go about implementing a sort of filter for who can send to it. I saw this before but could not post to it. Is this example how i should proceed? Also, where exactly do I put the list of allowed senders, is it where it says $list in the third line only?

Open powershell via the exchange menu item and run those commands:

$list = (Get-ContentFilterConfig).BypassedSenders
$list.add("[email protected]")
Set-ContentFilterConfig -BypassedSenders $list

We run Server 2012 on an Exchange 2010.

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  • I have an additional but very closely related question. (Near enough that I could tail it onto this question). What has changed in my situation is that I have no choice except to create a mail contact for this item instead. I dont want to entirely relay the purpose online. But a business process I am setting up requires use of an external email address that users need to see as if it were a part of our company. What comes to mind to me is to use a mail contact. I am wondering if anybody knows if mail contacts have restrict settings like what has already been discussed with DG and Mailbox?
    – Samir Fink
    May 26, 2015 at 14:31

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I think you are looking for something like this :

Set-Mailbox -Identity "QChelpdesk" -AcceptMessagesOnlyFrom @{add="user name"}

This example adds the user named "user name" to the list of users whose messages will be accepted by the mailbox of "QChelpdesk".

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    OP doesn't specify whether this is a mailbox or a distribution group, but a DG has an incredibly similar method. Set-DistributionGroup. DGs also have a setting, AcceptMessagesOnlyFromDLMembers (Boolean), which may be of use in some cases.
    – blaughw
    May 20, 2015 at 17:51
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    @blaughw Good point! In addition, set-mailbox also have the -AcceptMessagesOnlyFromDLMembers setting
    – krisFR
    May 20, 2015 at 17:54
  • Oh, my bad. You're totally right. -AcceptMessagesOnlyFromDLMembers isn't a Boolean. It's another multi valued property. I always thought it was a Bool that specified that only the membership of the DL can send to it.
    – blaughw
    May 20, 2015 at 18:13

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