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druber
New Member
April 6, 2021
Question

fortigate utm vs fortimail?

  • April 6, 2021
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Sorry if this is an FAQ - I've not seen any posts that answered this.  I currently have a vsphere VM running sophos-utm as an SMTP spam/av proxy, and have become unhappy with the amount of junk that gets through.  I've heard good things about fortinet, but am confused by the difference (if any?) between fortimail (virtual or physical) vs fortigate with UTM license.  I am currently using a pfsense firewall, and have no inclination to switch, unless that went with switching to fortigate+utm.  I seem to get the impression that fortigate+utm is less featureful, is this true?  e.g. providing a per-user quarantine, and other things, whereas fortigate+utm would mainly just tag the messages with a SPAM header, and my MTA would sort those into junk folders (and I'm okay with doing that, if needed).  And if I went with fortimail, I'd be inclined to go the VM route, if only because I can back up the appliance easily, using veeam.  Any thoughts/tips welcome!

    4 replies

    TuncayBAS
    Explorer
    April 7, 2021

    If you need a Smtp gateway, my recommendation would be FortiMail product. It is a more advanced AntiSpam smtp gateway product compared to Fortigate UTM device. And of course you can use Fortimail as vm.

     

    Fortigate and Fortimail check for spam from the same Fortiguard servers. But there are no advanced smtp control processes such as SPF, quarantine, DKIM, DMARC on Fortigate.

    emnoc
    New Member
    April 7, 2021

    Agreed

     

    The two products overlap but fml is more advance. Also to add  FML can be a smtp-gateay or server , grey listing and has better logging and mail tracing features that you can't get with a on firewall FGT platform.

    TuncayBAS
    Explorer
    April 7, 2021

    absolutely.

     

    The most important feature of the Fortimail product is that it can be quarantined. You cannot achieve this on Fortigate.

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