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V-259605CAT II — Medium severitySV-259605r961155_rule

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

Rule version EX19-ED-000118 · STIG v2 · 2024-12-06

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

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

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.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-259605
Group title
SRG-APP-000247
Rule ID
SV-259605r961155_rule
Check ID
C-63344r942127_chk
Fix ID
F-63252r942128_fix