how to check SMTP Logs

Question

Hi All

I am using exchange 2016 hybrid environment. Currently i am using anonymous relay and i want to use Authenticated Relay. I have a printer it works fine using anonymous relay. I want to use onprem relay for this printer. so i have created a AD user and then created remote mailbox and in the printer i have used this AD account when i try to trigger test email i am getting the below error. There is no issue with AD username and password. How can i check the SMTP logs, whether requests are hitting my exchange. i dont have edge transport server, i am using 3 mailbox servers in a DAG

Unable to send test Email.
Login failure. Check user password, and/or setups.

Answer 1

@Glenn Maxwell

If you want to use authentication relay, you need to bind certificate to Client Frontend Connector first, you could have a look about this article.
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Then you need to create an Exchange on-premises mailbox rather than remote mailbox to relay email.

After that, use "Send-MailMessage" command to check whether all configurations are correct. If there exist issue with it, you could check the receiver connector log (%ExchangeInstallPath%TransportRoles\Logs\FrontEnd\ProtocolLog\SmtpReceive) to find why you cannot relay email.

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