FortiGate-50A Installation and Configuration Guide Version 2.50
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Email filter
Email filtering is enabled in firewall policies. When you enable Anti-Virus & Web filter
in a firewall policy, you select a content profile that controls how email filtering
behaves for email (IMAP and POP3) traffic. Content profiles control the following
types of protection to identify unwanted email:
filtering unwanted sender address patterns,
filtering unwanted content,
exempting sender address patterns from blocking.
This chapter describes:
General configuration steps
Email banned word list
Email block list
Email exempt list
Adding a subject tag
General configuration steps
Configuring email filtering involves the following general steps:
1Select email filter options in a new or existing content profile. See “Adding content
profiles” on page 167.
2Select the Anti-Virus & Web filter option in firewall policies that allow IMAP and POP3
connections through the FortiGate unit. Select a content profile that provides the email
filtering options that you want to apply to a policy. See “Adding content profiles to
policies” on page 169.
3Add a subject tag to the unwanted email so that receivers can use their mail client
software to filter messages based on the tag. See “Adding a subject tag” on page250.
Note: For information about receiving email filter log messages, see “Configuring logging” in the
Logging Configuration and Reference Guide. For information about email filter log message
categories and formats, see “Log messages” in the FortiGate Logging Configuration and
Reference Guide.