IM/P2P (new)

New features and changes

Banned word

The Banned word menu still controls spam by blocking email messages containing specific words or patterns. The Action column on the Banned Word page is now Score, and is reflected when configuring a new banned word.

Score is a numerical weighting applied to banned word. If the score is greater than the spamwordthreshold value set in the protection profile, the page is processed according to whether the spam action command for the mail traffic type (for example smtp3-spamaction) is set to pass or tag in the protection profile. The score for the banned word is counted once even if the word appears multiple times in the web page.

Black/White list

The Black/White list menu provides a way to filter incoming email if enabled in the protection profile. The FortiGate unit uses both an IP address list and email list for filtering purposes.

The FortiGate unit compares the IP address of the message’s sender to the IP address in sequence when doing an IP address list check. If the FortiGate unit finds a match, the action associated with the IP address is taken. If there is no match, then the message passes to the next enabled spam filter.

Email lists work the same way.

IM/P2P (new)

The IM/P2P menu consists of the following menus:

Statistics

User

The IM/P2P menu is new for FortiOS 3.0. Since instant messaging and peer to peer (P2P) networks have grown, FortiOS 3.0 now includes a separate menu for these new technologies. You can control the amount of bandwidth allocated for P2P.

There are extended features with the IM/P2P menu, available in the CLI. You can use config imp2p old-versioncommand to enable older versions of IM protocols. These older versions of IM protocols are able to bypass file blocking because the message types are not recognized. This command provides the option to disable these older IM protocol versions.

The supported protocols are:

MSN 6.0 and above

ICQ 4.0 and above

AIM 5.0 and above

Yahoo 6.0 and above

Note: The FortiGate unit is unable to block Skype uses. Also, if the audio blocking feature is enabled, instant messaging clients are still able to send/receive webcam/video traffic.

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FortiOS 3.0 specifications

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