When using Exchange Online as your SMTP server in Dynamics AX 2012, you may have encountered this issue when sending emails, for example notifications, by batch:
Method 'send' in COM object of class 'CDO.Message' returned error code 0x8004020F (<unknown>) which means: <unknown>.
The error only occurs when sending emails outside of your organization’s domain, for example to an outlook.com email address.
In your test environment you can make a small change to the sysmailer class to get more details on the exception. Basically add a try/catch block as follows:
Compile CIL (incremental), restart your AOS and test again. This time you will get a more detailed error message:
The server rejected one or more recipient addresses. The server response was: 550 5.7.0 Relay Access Denied.
To resolve this issue you have to configure a connector in your Exchange Online.
You will find the details here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn554323(v=exchg.150).aspx
Log in to https://portal.office.com with your Admin account, then go to Admin > Exchange > Mail flow > connectors.
In the Incoming connectors section click on the + sign and configure your connector in order to allow SMTP relay from your AOS. This is just an example, you should be more restrictive:
- Connector type: On premises
- Opportunistic TLS
- Domain restrictions: None
- Scope: *
- Sender IP Addresses: external IP address of the AOS
I hope this helps.
Bertrand