Remote Server returned '550 5.7.520 Access denied, Your organization does not allow external forwarding. Please contact your administrator for further assistance. AS(7555)'

In trying to forward messages to a certain account from an internal address we are receiving the above message.

Can we enable this somehow?

Edited by moderator 31 October 2020 19:33:33(UTC)  | Reason: Solved :)

We were seeing the same:

remote server returned '550 5.7.520 access denied, your organization does not allow external forwarding. please contact your administrator for further assistance. as(7555)'

One thing to bear in mind if you cannot find this setting, the solutions is only for the system administrator - we spent a few minutes trying to find it with a normal user logged in before we twigged.



We had to phone the IT support company support desk and get them to make the change, but once the call was made, all was well, and we could have the system forward the messages automatically for any user no problem.

Edited by user 17 November 2020 21:15:36(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

If you are a single user then you should have access to this, if not you can find out who your reseller is by clicking the question mark top right on the Office 365 home page.

Failing that, yes use the question mark to ask Microsoft.

Do not ask for Bill Gates though, I've heard he's busy at the moment.

Edited by user 19 November 2020 17:56:19(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Just to say that you actually need to enter the following section:

Outbound spam filter policy at https://protection.office.com/antispam

And then expand Outbound spam filter policy ‎(always ON)‎:



Next click the edit policy button and change the Automatic Forwarding Enabled to On Forwarding is Enabled



Now automatic forwarding is enabled for your Office 365 tenancy.

Edited by user 26 November 2020 11:26:05(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified