Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 1 May Cause Edge Server to Reject Email to Valid Recipients

News of a with Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 1 has emerged, with some customers running Transport servers finding that the Edge rejects emails sent to valid email addresses.

First reported by MVP Norbert Klenner, details of the have been added to the release notes for Exchange 2016.

Transport servers can reject mail sent to valid recipients Edge Transport servers may reject messages sent to valid internal recipients when the following are true:

  • Cumulative 1 (CU1) is installed on the server.
  • Recipient validation is enabled on the server.

When an Edge Transport rejects a message because of this issue, the sender will receive a non-delivery report (NDR) with the status code 5.1.10, and the errorRecipient not found by SMTP address lookup. The recipient won’t receive the message.

From testing it appears that this impacts Edge Transport servers receiving email directly from the internet. Edge Transport servers that are used for hybrid mail flow with do not appear to be affected by this bug.

’s advice to customers affected by this is to either:

  1. Disable recipient validation on Exchange 2016 Edge Transport servers
  2. Route inbound email to an Edge Transport that has not been upgraded to Exchange 2016
  3. Route inbound email directly to a Mailbox

If you prefer not to bypass their Edge Transport server, and don’t have a non- Edge to route email to, then disabling recipient filtering on the Edge Transport involves the following command on the Edge Transport server:

Set-RecipientFilterConfig -RecipientValidationEnabled $False

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