HOW TO: Configure Connectors to Reject Messages from Specific Senders in Exchange 2000 Server

This step-by-step article describes how to configure connectors to reject messages from specific senders in Exchange 2000 Server and Exchange Server 2003. You can use delivery restrictions to reject messages before transferring them over the connector. You can reject messages based on the sender's e-mail address. By default, no delivery restrictions are set; therefore, connectors accept all messages from all senders.

Configuring Connectors to Reject Messages from Specific Senders

To configure connectors to reject messages from specific senders:

1. Click Start, point to Programs, point to Microsoft Exchange, and then click System Manager.
2. Expand the Administrative Groups object, expand the First Administrative Group object, expand the Routing Groups object, and then expand the routing group that you want to work with.
3. Expand the Connectors container, right-click the connector that you want to work with, and then click Properties.
4. Click the Delivery Restrictions tab.
5. Under By default, messages from everyone are, make sure that Accepted is selected.
6. Under Reject messages from, click Add.
7. In the Select Recipient dialog box, click the users, contacts, and groups from which you do not want to accept messages. All other senders are accepted automatically.
   
   Note To select a group of recipients, press and hold the CTRL key while you select the recipients.
8. Click OK twice.
   
   Note After you complete the procedure, enable restriction checking in the registry. For additional information about how to enable restriction checking in the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
   277872  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/277872/EN-US/ ) XCON: Connector Delivery Restrictions May Not Work Correctly