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March 3, 2026

Technical Tip: Configuring the per-client email intervals in session profiles

  • March 3, 2026
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Description This article describes how to configure the per-client email sending interval in a session profile.
Scope FortiMail.
Solution

The session rate control interval enforces the time interval used for rate counting per client in the session profile for:

  • Number of connections.

  • Number of messages.

  • Number of recipients.

These limits are applied per client over a defined time period (in minutes),

 

config antispam settings
   set session-profile-rate-control-interval <minutes_interval>
end
 

By default the settings is '30' minutes.

 

Session_Rate.JPG

 

In this example, the session rate control interval is configured to 100 minutes. The valid range is 5 to 120 minutes.

 

config antispam settings
   set session-profile-rate-control-interval 100
end

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