According to the BPOSitive blog, SMTP is now enabled for BPOS.
If you have some clients who require to send email through your online exchange environment, you can do so now (all info below thanks to BPOSitive).
To connect to the Microsoft Online Services SMTP server, open your SMTP client application and provide the information below.
The fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the Microsoft Online Services SMTP server. The FQDN will be slightly different depending on which Microsoft Online Services datacenter your company is connected to. The server FQDNs are:o North America Datacenter:
- Smtp.mail.microsoftonline.com
- Europe Datacenter: Smtp.mail.emea.microsoftonline.com
- Asia Pacific Datacenter: Smtp.mail.apac.microsoftonline.com
The user name and password of a Microsoft Online Services user account with an Exchange Online license. On most client applications, this is under “My outgoing mail server (SMTP) requires authentication” – this should be configured “Yes”, and the corresponding Microsoft Online username and password supplied.
The SMTP port to use: 587
On most client applications, this is under “Server Port Numbers for Outgoing Server (SMTP)” – this should be configured to use port 587
Make sure that Transport Layer Security (TLS) is enabled in your SMTP client.
On most client applications, this is under “My outgoing mail server (SMTP) requires an encrypted connection (SSL)” – this should be configured “Yes”
