Microsoft Exchange 365 / Outlook blocks email forwarding
I want to automatically forward an email to my billing rocket, but I get the message “Access denied, Your organization does not allow external forwarding.”
The message „Access denied, Your organization does not allow external forwarding.” is shown when Microsoft Exchange/Outlook blocks the automatic forwarding of external emails. You will usually receive an email in your inbox with the following content:
To enable automatic forwarding of external emails between your Microsoft Exchange/Outlook account and your Excel template again, simply update forwarding rules in your anti-spam policies:
Step 1 – Open Anti-spam policies
Open the list of anti-spam policies in your Microsoft Defender portal:
Step 2 – Open Anti-spam outbound policy
In the list of anti-spam policies (https://security.microsoft.com/antispam), click Anti-spam outbound policy (default) to open the outbound policy.
Step 3 – Edit outgoing email protection settings
In the opened window, click Edit protection settings to edit the outgoing email filter policies.
Step 4 – Allow automatic forwarding
Click on Automatic forwarding and select in the selection menu On – forwarding is enabled so that emails can be forwarded automatically.
Then click Save.
