
When the mail comes into Office 365 in this scenario, it will be accepted like other messages from the Internet. No authentication is necessary, no special ports are necessary.


You can configure those applications/devices to send mail directly to your MX record in Office 365. If the answer is Yes, then you don’t need a relay server. The question you must ask yourself to determine if you really need a relay is: Do my applications, scanners, etc need to send ONLY to people in my domain? It seems there is some confusion about what actually constitutes a relay, so let’s start off with trying to determine if you actually need to relay with Office 365 and then we’ll get into the options. SMTP Relay with Office 365 is one of the more common questions we get at MessageOps.
