I'm part of the Incident Management team at a subsidiary company and I'm trying to send important incident communications from our parent company's email address to a large distribution list at our subsidiary. Unfortunately, this list triggers Exchange moderation due to its size, and I'm looking for a solution. Here's the setup: the parent company domain is parent.com and the subsidiary domain is child.com. Although there's a trust relationship between the two, they still consider each other external. The large distribution list is located at [email protected], and the email I'm trying to use is [email protected], which is a shared mailbox for incident communications. My question is whether there's a way in Exchange to configure it so that my external email address can bypass moderation when sending to this large list?
2 Answers
The best approach is to add the external email (in this case, [email protected]) to the 'bypassmoderation' list for that specific distribution list. That should allow you to send without triggering moderation.
Unfortunately, it can't be done. You'll need to either send the email from within the same tenant or use a third-party mailing solution to get around this limitation.
Thanks for the clarification! I appreciate your help!

I was under the impression that you couldn't add external emails to the bypassmoderation list. Is this really possible?