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V-259605

CAT II (Medium)

Exchange receive connectors must control the number of recipients chunked on a single message.

Rule ID

SV-259605r961155_rule

STIG

Microsoft Exchange 2019 Edge Server Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V2R2

CCIs

CCI-001095

Discussion

Email system availability depends in part on best practice strategies for setting tuning configurations. For message size restrictions, multiple places exist to set or override inbound or outbound message size. Failure to control the configuration strategy can result in loss of data or system availability. This setting enables the administrator to enable "chunking" on received messages as they arrive at the domain. This is done so large message bodies can be relayed by the remote sender to the Receive connector in multiple, smaller chunks.

Check Content

Open the Exchange Management Shell and enter the following command:

Get-ReceiveConnector | Select-Object -Property Name, Identity, ChunkingEnabled

For each receive connector, if the value of "ChunkingEnabled" is not set to "True", this is a finding.

Fix Text

Open the Exchange Management Shell and enter the following command:

Set-ReceiveConnector -Identity <'IdentityName'> -ChunkingEnabled $true

Note: The <IdentityName> value must be in quotes.

Repeat the procedure for each receive connector.