Connecting Microsoft Exchange

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About connecting Microsoft Exchange email services

You can integrate Perception Point X‑Ray with Microsoft Exchange. This enables Perception Point X‑Ray to protect all incoming mail to Microsoft Exchange. [Refers to Microsoft Exchange On-Premises]

Integration with Microsoft Exchange requires an MX record change.
With the "Exchange" integration method, remediation is not available.
With the "Exchange" integration method, Perception Point X‑Ray will protect all users in the account - it is not possible to specify groups, email accounts, or users to protect.
With the "Exchange" integration method, scanning of outbound emails is not available.
The "Exchange" integration method can be used to protect accounts that have Exchange Online Kiosk licenses.

Perception Point X‑Ray scans email messages up to a maximum size of 40 MB [including attachments]. Larger email messages are not scanned by Perception Point X‑Ray, and will be delivered to the specified recipients.

Note:

Due to external technical limitations, the 40 MB limitation can't be increased.
We recommend that you limit receiving email attachments up to 30 MB in size. Files that are larger than 30 MB should be shared using a different file sharing service, such as Microsoft OneDrive or Google Drive.

A bit more about integrating with Microsoft Exchange

Onboarding process

Customer onboarding entails adding the domain name and verifying a TXT record in the system.
During the onboarding process, you'll need to add the next hop (MX record) so that Perception Point X‑Ray knows where to deliver the email after scanning.

Email flow overview

All inbound emails are directed straight to the Perception Point X‑Ray scanner upon arrival.

Scanning and response

Clean: Clean emails verified by Perception Point X‑Ray are sent back to the configured server (Next SMTP).
Spam: Emails identified as spam by Perception Point X‑Ray are sent back to the configured server (Next SMTP).
- For servers utilizing header-based rules to redirect spam to the Junk Email folder, you can append the "X-PERCEPTION-POINT-SPAM: FAIL" header.
- In Exchange 2013/2019, this can be accomplished through transport rules.
Malicious: Emails identified as malicious are blocked and are not forwarded to the next server.

Note: With the "Exchange" integration method, remediation is not available. This means that if an email was initially assigned a clean verdict, which was later changed to malicious, the email will not be removed from the user's Inbox.

The Microsoft Exchange onboarding process

Perform the following procedures to integrate Microsoft Exchange with Perception Point X‑Ray:

Flow chart diagram

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