Fortinet 3.0 MR4 Introduction

Introduction About the FortiMail Secure Messaging Platform

FortiMail™ Secure Messaging Platform Version 3.0 MR4 CLI Reference

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Introduction

This chapter introduces you to the FortiMail™ Secure Messaging Platform and

the following topics:

•About the FortiMail Secure Messaging Platform

•About this document

•FortiMail documentation

•Customer service and technical support

Each FortiMail unit is an integrated hardware and software solution that provides

powerful and flexible logging and reporting, antispam, antivirus, and email

archiving capabilities to incoming and outgoing email traffic. The FortiMail unit has

reliable and high performance features for detecting and blocking spam

messages and malicious attachments. Built on Fortinet’s FortiOS™, the FortiMail

antivirus technology extends full content inspection capabilities to detect the most

advanced email threats.

This document describes how to use the Fortinet Command Line Interface (CLI).

The following chapters appear in this document:

•Using the CLI describes how to connect to and use the Fortinet command-line

interface (CLI).

•execute is an alphabetically-ordered reference to the execute commands.

These commands perform immediate actions on the FortiMail unit, such as

configuration backup or unit reset.

•get is an alphabetically-ordered reference to the get commands. These

commands display information about FortiMail unit configuration and status.

•set is an alphabetically-ordered reference to the set commands. These

commands configure all aspects of FortiMail unit operation.

•unset is an alphabetically-ordered reference to the unset commands. These

commands remove configurations such as alert email settings, LDAP profiles,

logging and email server settings.

Note: Diagnose commands are also available from the FortiMail CLI. These commands are

used to display system information and for debugging. Diagnose commands are intended

for advanced users only, and they are not covered in this document. Contact Fortinet

technical support before using these commands.