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August 31, 2009

Technical Note : Configuring a FortiGate to block emails from specific countries, using domain suffixes

  • August 31, 2009
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Description
In situations where a large volume of emails are received from countries that are not related to the business of your company, there may be a requirement to block all emails sent from addresses belonging to these countries

Filtering email based on email address characteristics is not spam filtering, it is enforcing an email policy.


Solution

Blocking messages sent from a specific domain suffix can be achieved by using the email address black/white list.

For example, in order to block all emails from .ru email addresses, create one entry in the email address BWL list as shown below.  
 
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