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Email concepts and process workflow
- Email protocols
- Client-server connections in SMTP
- DNS role in email delivery
- How FortiMail processes email
- FortiMail operation modes
- FortiMail high availability modes
- FortiMail management methods
Setting up FortiMail system
- Connecting to the web UI or CLI
- Choosing the operation mode
- Running the Quick Start Wizard
- Connecting to FortiGuard services
- Gateway mode deployment
- Transparent mode deployment
- Server mode deployment
- Testing the installation
- Backing up the configuration
Using the dashboard
- Viewing the dashboard
- Using the CLI Console
Using FortiView
- Viewing mail statistics
- View threat statistics
- View outbreak statistics
- Viewing top user statistics
- Viewing current IP sessions
Monitoring the system
- Viewing log messages
- Managing the quarantines
- Managing the mail queue
- Viewing the greylist statuses
- Viewing sender, authentication and endpoint reputation
- Managing archived email
- Viewing generated reports
Centrally monitoring the HA cluster
- Viewing the cluster status
- Viewing HA cluster mail statistics
- Viewing HA cluster threat statistics
- Searching the HA cluster logs
Configuring system settings
- Configuring network settings
- Configuring administrator accounts and access profiles
- Configuring system time, options, and other system options
- Configuring mail settings
- Customizing GUI, custom messages, email templates, SSO, and Security Fabric
- Configuring RAID
- Using high availability (HA)
- Managing certificates
- Using FortiNDR malware inspection
- Using FortiSandbox antivirus inspection
- Configuring FortiGuard services
- System maintenance
- System utility
Configuring domains and users
- Configuring protected domains
- Managing users
- Configuring user aliases
- Configuring address mappings
- Configuring IBE users
- Managing the address book (server mode only)
- Sharing calendars and address books (server mode only)
- Migrating email from other mail servers (server mode only)
Configuring policies
- What is a policy?
- How to use policies
- Controlling SMTP access and delivery
- Controlling email based on IP addresses
- Controlling email based on sender and recipient addresses
Configuring profiles
- Configuring session profiles
- Configuring antispam profiles and antispam action profiles
- Configuring antivirus profiles, file signatures, and antivirus action profiles
- Configuring content profiles and content action profiles
- Configuring replacement message profiles and variables
- Configuring resource profiles
- Workflow to enable and configure authentication of email users
- Configuring authentication profiles
- Configuring LDAP profiles
- Configuring dictionary profiles
- Configuring security profiles
- Configuring IP pools
- Configuring email, IP and GeoIP groups
- Configuring notification profiles
Configuring security settings
- Configuring the FortiGuard URL filter
- Configuring content disarm and reconstruction
- Configuring authentication reputation
- Configuring email quarantines and quarantine reports
- Configuring block lists and safe lists
- Configuring greylisting
- Configuring bounce verification and tagging
- Configuring sender rewriting scheme
- Configuring endpoint reputation
- Training and maintaining the Bayesian databases
Configuring encryption settings
- Configuring IBE encryption
- Configuring certificate bindings
Configuring data loss prevention
- DLP configuration workflow
- Defining the sensitive data
- Configuring DLP rules
- Configuring DLP profiles
Archiving email
- Email archiving workflow
- Configuring email archiving accounts
- Configuring email archiving policies
- Configuring email archiving exemptions
Logs, reports and alerts
- About FortiMail logging
- Configuring logging
- Configuring report profiles and generating mail statistic reports
- Configuring alert email
Microsoft 365 threat remediation
- Microsoft 365 protection workflow
- Configuring Microsoft 365 accounts
- Configuring profiles
- Configuring scanning policies
- Monitoring log messages
Installing firmware
- Testing firmware before installing it
- Installing firmware
- Clean installing firmware
- Upgrading firmware on HA units
Best practices and fine tuning
- General security tuning
- System security tuning
- Network topology tuning
- High availability (HA) tuning
- SMTP connectivity tuning
- Antispam tuning
- Policy tuning
- System maintenance tips
- Performance tuning
Troubleshooting
- Establish a system baseline
- Define the problem
- Search for a known solution
- Create a troubleshooting plan
- Gather system information
- Troubleshoot hardware issues
- Troubleshoot GUI and CLI connection issues
- Troubleshoot FortiGuard connection issues
- Troubleshoot MTA issues
- Troubleshoot antispam issues
- Troubleshoot HA issues
- Troubleshoot resource issues
- Troubleshoot bootup issues
- Troubleshoot installation issues
- Contact Fortinet customer support for assistance
Setup for email users
- Training Bayesian databases
- Managing tagged spam
- Accessing the personal quarantine and webmail
- Sending email from an email client (gateway and transparent mode)
Appendix A: Supported RFCs
Appendix B: Maximum Values
Appendix C: Port Numbers
Appendix D: Wildcards and regular expressions
- Special characters with regular expressions and wildcards
- Case sensitivity
- Modifiers
- Word boundary
- Syntax
- Examples
Appendix E: Working with TLS/SSL
- About TLS/SSL
- How TLS/SSL works
- FortiMail support of TLS/SSL
- Troubleshooting FortiMail TLS issues
Appendix F: PKI Authentication
- Introduction to PKI authentication
- FortiMail PKI architecture
- Configuring PKI authentication on FortiMail
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Date	Change Description
2022-05-10	Initial release.
2022-05-13	Updates and bug fixes.
2023-11-07	Improvement to regular expression syntax example for matching emoji and Unicode characters.
2024-02-07	Fix to add missing setting Intra domain protection.
2024-03-13	Fix to add missing setting Email continuity.

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Date	Change Description
2022-05-10	Initial release.
2022-05-13	Updates and bug fixes.
2023-11-07	Improvement to regular expression syntax example for matching emoji and Unicode characters.
2024-02-07	Fix to add missing setting Intra domain protection.
2024-03-13	Fix to add missing setting Email continuity.

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