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Administration Guide

Key concepts
- Email protocols
- Client-server connections in SMTP
- DNS role in email delivery
- How FortiMail processes email
Setting up the FortiMail system
- Connecting to the GUI or CLI
- Choosing the operation mode
- 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
- Viewing threat statistics
- Viewing outbreak statistics
- Viewing top user statistics
- Viewing SSL/TLS session statistics
- Viewing current IP sessions
Monitoring the system
- Viewing log messages
- Maintaining the quarantines and submitted samples
- Managing the mail queues
- Viewing DMARC report statistics
  - Viewing the DMARC and SPF report summary
  - Viewing details about DMARC and SPF report statistics
- Viewing the greylist statuses
- Viewing sender, authentication and endpoint reputation
- Managing archived email
- Viewing 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 the system time and other options
- Configuring mail settings
- Customizing messages, GUI theme, Security Fabric, and email templates
- Configuring single sign-on (SSO)
- Configuring RAID and self-encrypting drives (SED)
- Using high availability (HA)
- Managing certificates
- Using FortiNDR malware inspection
- Using FortiSandbox antivirus inspection
- Configuring FortiGuard services and licensed features
  - Configuring licensed features
- System maintenance
- System utility
Configuring domains and users
- Configuring protected domains
- Managing users
- Configuring user aliases
- Configuring address mappings
- Configuring IBE users
- Configuring the address book
- 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 email addresses
Configuring profiles
- Configuring session profiles
- Configuring address rewrite profiles
- Configuring mail routing profiles
- Configuring access control profiles
- Configuring DSN profiles
- Configuring antispam profiles and actions
- Configuring antivirus profiles, file signatures, and actions
- Configuring content profiles and content action profiles
- Configuring replacement message profiles
- Configuring resource profiles
- Workflow for email user authentication
- 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 URL filter profiles
- Configuring a threat feed
  - Types and file formats of threat feeds
- Configuring content disarming and reconstruction
- Configuring authentication reputation
- Configuring the quarantines and personal quarantine reports
- Configuring the block lists and safe lists
- Configuring greylisting
- Configuring bounce verification and tagging
- Configuring sender rewriting scheme
- Configuring endpoint reputation
- Configuring antispam preferences
- Configuring action profile and archive scan preferences
- Training and maintaining the Bayesian databases
Configuring encryption settings
- Configuring IBE encryption
- Configuring certificate bindings
Configuring data loss prevention (DLP)
- Workflow for DLP configuration
- Defining the sensitive data
- Configuring DLP rules
- Configuring DLP profiles
Archiving email
- Workflow for email archiving
- Configuring email archiving accounts
- Configuring email archiving policies
- Configuring email archiving exemptions
Logs, reports, and alerts
- About logging
- Configuring logging
- Configuring report profiles and generating reports
- Configuring alert email
Integrating with Microsoft 365 via SMTP
Integrating with Microsoft 365, Microsoft Exchange, and Google Workspace via API
- Workflow for Microsoft 365, Microsoft Exchange EWS, and Google Workspace APIs
- Connecting a FortiMail account to a service API
- Configuring profiles
  - Configuring action profiles
- Configuring policies
- Monitoring log messages
- Viewing subscribed users
Managing firmware and configuration
- 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
- 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: Supported RFCs
Appendix: Maximum Values
Appendix: Port numbers
Appendix: Wildcards and regular expressions
- Special characters with regular expressions and wildcards
- Case sensitivity
- Modifiers
- Word boundary
- Syntax
- Example regular expressions
Appendix: Working with TLS/SSL
- About TLS/SSL
- How TLS/SSL works
- FortiMail support of TLS/SSL
- Troubleshooting FortiMail TLS issues
Appendix: PKI Authentication
- Introduction to PKI authentication
- FortiMail PKI architecture
- Configuring PKI authentication on FortiMail
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