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KPS
KPS
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August 26, 2019
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Fortigate - AntiSpam - SMTP - Block instead of discard

  • August 26, 2019
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Hi!

 

I want to use my Fortigates as SpamFilter and tried to enable it, but I have some complaints from my users:

 

Fortigate is "transparent" in front of my MTA.

If a message from outside is declared as spam through FortiGuard Spam Filtering, it is just dropped, but the sender is getting a positive feedback code (250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as...)

 

Shouldn't Fortigate just intercept the session, that the sender will get an error code?

 

 

Did I do something wrong?

 

Thank you for your help!

Regards,

KPS

    1 reply

    abelio
    SuperUser
    abelio
    SuperUser
    August 26, 2019

    Hi,

    modify the Spam action to be taken when traffic matches your antispam  profile.

    Default is "discard" for SMTP; change it to "tag".  Mail will reach the recipient with a tag you can customize

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    KPS
    KPSAuthor
    New Member
    August 26, 2019

    Hi abelio!

     

    I am aware of that feature, but this is not, what I am looking for.

    Isn't there a "block"-feature to just interrupt the session, when spam is detected?

    abelio
    SuperUser
    abelio
    SuperUser
    August 26, 2019

    Apparently this is a semantic issue;

     

    If you check docs at https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/6.2.1/cli-reference/347620/emailfilter-profile

    you'll see:

     

     

     

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