Configure Connectors for Templafy-Hosted Email Signature Server

This article details the steps to creating and configuring connectors to route e-mails through the Templafy Email Signature Server in the Exchange Online Admin Center.

Inbound Connector

• Navigate to https://admin.exchange.microsoft.com/.

• Click Mail flow and then Connectors.

• Click + Add a connector.

  • The Connection from option should be set to Your organization's email server.

  • The Connection to option will remain on the Office 365 setting.

  • Click Next.

• Enter a name for the connector: templafy-ess-inbound-cert.

  • Under What do you want to do after connector is saved?, select Retain internal Exchange email headers (both check boxes should be enabled).
  • Click Next.
• Choose the defaulted option, By verifying that the subject name on the certificate...
  • The subject name is: [tenant-name].templafy-ess.com
  • Click Next.
• Click Create Connector.

Outbound Connector

• Click + Add a connector.

  • The Connection from option should be set to Office 365.

  • The Connection to option will remain on the Your organization's email server setting.

  • Click Next.

• Enter a name for the connector: templafy-ess-outbound-cert.

  • Under What do you want to do after connector is saved?, select Retain internal Exchange email headers (both check boxes should be enabled).
  • Click Next.
• Select the option, Only when I have a transport rule set up that redirects messages to this connector and click Next.
• Specify the smart host name: [tenant-name].templafy-ess.com. Click the + sign, followed by Next.
• Choose the defaulted option, Issued by a trusted certificate authority (CA).
  • Select the checkbox for Add the subject name or subject alternative name (SAN matches this domain name: 
  • The subject name is: [tenant-name].templafy-ess.com
  • Click Next.
• Provide an email address from inside your organization, click the +sign, and click Validate.
  • If the validation fails, add the following to the Apply this rule if section of your Templafy ESS Mail Flow Rule:
    • Select The sender then click the Select one dropdown and select:is this personand add O365ConnectorValidation@<yourrdomain.tld>
    • Re-run the validation until it is successful.
    • Click Next.
• Click Create Connector.