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melkady
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November 12, 2025

Technical Tip: Using session profile safelisting to bypass remaining antispam checks

  • November 12, 2025
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Description

This article describes how to bypass antispam inspection for specific senders using an email address safelist entry within a Session Profile.

Scope FortiMail, all versions.
Solution

To allow a trusted sender to bypass remaining antispam checks:

  1. Navigate to Policy -> IP Policy -> Find the Preferred Session Profile -> Edit.
  2. Under List, enable the option Enable sender safelist checking.


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  1. Select Edit.

  2. Select New, then add the sender email address.


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Emails matching this safelist entry will:

  • Bypass remaining AntiSpam checks.
  • Not bypass antivirus inspection.
  • Not bypass content checks.

 

To confirm the behavior:

  1. Open Monitor -> Log.
  2. Locate the processed email.
  3. Verify the Classifier shows: Session Safe.
                                                                           

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This indicates AntiSpam filtering was skipped due to the sender safelist.

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