Configuring spam filtering options – Fortinet 100A User Manual

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Protection profile options

Firewall

The following options are available for web category filtering through the protection
profile. See

“Category block” on page 317

for more category blocking configuration

options.

Configuring spam filtering options

Figure 109:Protection profile spam filtering options

The following options are available for spam filtering through the protection profile.
See

“Spam filter” on page 323

for more spam filter configuration options.

Enable category block (HTTP
only)

Enable FortiGuard category blocking.

Block unrated websites
(HTTP only)

Block any web pages that have not been rated by the web

filtering service.

Provide details for blocked
HTTP 4xx and 5xx errors
(HTTP only)

Display a replacement message for 4xx and 5xx HTTP errors.

If the error is allowed through then malicious or objectionable

sites could use these common error pages to circumvent web

category blocking.

Allow websites when a rating
error occurs (HTTP only)

Allow web pages that return a rating error from the web

filtering service.

Category

The FortiGuard web filtering service provides many categories

by which to filter web traffic. You can set the action to take on

web pages for each category. Choose from allow, block, or

monitor.

IP address FortiShield
check

Enable or disable the Fortinet spam filtering IP address blacklist:

FortiShield. See

“FortiShield” on page 325

for a description of this

service.

IP address BWL check

Black/white list check. Enable or disable checking incoming IP

addresses against the configured spam filter IP address list. (SMTP

only.)

RBL & ORDBL check

Enable or disable checking traffic against configured Real-time

Blackhole List and Open Relay Database List servers.

HELO DNS lookup

Enable or disable looking up the source domain name (from the

SMTP HELO command) in the Domain Name Server.

E-mail address BWL
check

Enable or disable checking incoming email addresses against the

configured spam filter email address list.

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