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January 1, 2025

Technical Tip: FortiMail Heuristic Scan

  • January 1, 2025
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Description

This article describes how the FortiMail Heuristic Scan works.
Scope FortiMail
Solution
  1. Heuristic scan in FortiMail uses a scoring technique based on the 5 factors below.
    1. Email Header
    2. Email Body
    3. Raw Body
    4. URI in Email
    5. Metadata

  2. Each of the factors above has its own score used to calculate the total score for an email.

  3. If the total score of the email equal to or exceeds the configured threshold, the FortiMail will mark the email as spam.

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