Some up to date instructions for anyone struggling with office365 & direct-delivery
- Go to Microsoft admin center
- Click on Settings then Domains
- Click on Add Domain
- Follow the instructions on the screen to add your forum’s URL (example: forum:yourlinks.com)
- Once you’ve completed the above steps and the DNS is verified, you’re now able to create an inbox using that subdomain
- Click on Users and then Active users
- Click on Add a user
- Create the mailbox for your forum (example: noreply@forum.yourlinks.com) mailbox domain must match the hostname from where the forum runs
- Click on Licenses & Apps
- Assign this mailbox an Exchange Online (Plan 1) license (10,000 messages daily 30msg/min throttle) It is required to have a license attached to the mailbox for the purpose of direct-delivery. At the time of writing, the cost is $4.00USD/mo or $5.10/CAD | Should you require a higher limit or a shorter throttle, there are other plans available
- Click on Mail and then Manage email apps
- Enable “Authenticated SMTP”
- Click Save changes
- Go to your Azure portal
- Browse to your active directory
- Select Properties in the left sidebar, right under User settings
- Select Manage security defaults
- Set Security defaults to “disabled”
- Click save
- Go back to Users > Active users
- Click on Multi-factor authentication
- Disable MFA on the mailbox being used
The mailbox is now ready for use by your Discourse.