Technical Tip: Cannot see Email filter logs after configuration

Description

This article describes how to enable logging for Email-filter.

Scope

FortiGate.

Solution

By default, logging is disabled for this feature.

To enable logging, follow:
For example, an anti-spam profile named test1 is created in the root VDO,M and SMTP is used for email servers.

config vdom
    edit root

For v6.2 and below:

config spamfilter profile
  edit test1
    show full-configuration
config smtp
    set log enable                <----- Enable logging.
end

For v6.2 and above:
   

config emailfilter profile
    edit test1
        show full-configuration
   config smtp
        set log-all enable            <----- Enable logging.
   end

Select different options under the config emailfilter profile to enable logging based on the protocol( imap/pop3/smtp/mapi/Msn-Hotmail/Gmail ) used for email servers.

Related article:

Technical Tip: How to enable email and spam filter logs