Spam filter – Fortinet 100A User Manual

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FortiGate-100A Administration Guide Version 2.80 MR7

FortiGate-100A Administration Guide

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Spam filter

Spam filter provides configuration access to the spam filtering options you enable
when you create a firewall protection profile. While spam filters are configured for
system-wide use, you can enable the filters on a per profile basis. Spam filter can be
configured to manage unsolicited commercial email by detecting spam email
messages and identifying spam transmissions from known or suspected spam
servers.

Table 29

describes the spam filter settings and where to configure and access them.

To access protection profile spam filter options go to Firewall > Protection Profile, edit
or Create New, Spam Filtering. See

“Protection profile options” on page 223

.

Table 29: Spam Filter and Protection Profile spam filtering configuration

Protection Profile spam filtering options

Spam filter setting

IP address FortiShield check

Spam Filter > FortiShield

Enable or disable Fortinet’s antispam service:

FortiShield. This service works like an RBL

server and is continuously updated to block

spam sources.

Check the status of the FortiShield server,

view the license type and expiry date, and

configure the cache.

IP address BWL check

Spam Filter > IP Address

Black/white list check. Enable or disable

checking incoming IP addresses against the

configured spam filter IP address list. (SMTP

only.)

Add to and edit IP addresses to the list. You

can configure the action to take as spam,

clear, or reject for each IP address. You can

place an IP address anywhere in the list. The

filter checks each IP address in sequence.

(SMTP only.)

RBL & ORDBL check

Spam Filter > RBL & ORDBL

Enable or disable checking SMTP traffic

against configured Real-time Blackhole List

and Open Relay Database List servers.

Add to and edit RBL and ORDBL servers to

the list. You can configure the action to take

as spam or reject for email identified as spam

from each server. (SMTP only.)

HELO DNS lookup
Enable or disable checking the source domain

name against the registered IP address in the

Domain Name Server. If the source domain

name does not match the IP address the

email is marked as spam and the action

selected in the protection profile is taken.

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