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SCSIraidGURU
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July 26, 2016
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Fortimail 200D has 2048 entry limit on their white lists that is static.

  • July 26, 2016
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 Don't just read respond what you think? Fortimail 200D has 2048 entry limit on their white lists that is static.    The 2048 limit for addresses is static.  Only a manual delete on e-mails can free up entries.  I put in a feature request to have the list made dynamic.   I came up with many solutions for Fortinet.   However, my account manager does not think it is worth doing.  Problem:   Our sales staff white lists are filled.  Any new e-mails my sales staff send out can't be automatically whitelisted.  This forces every return e-mail to be scanned by Fortimail 200D.   Most of them end up in the quarantine.  With greylisting turned on, this delays the e-mails by 15-30 minutes.  Also, my sales staff has to check both Exchange and their Quarantine constantly.   My solutions are 1.) Make the list dynamic with either a TTL (Time to live) on each address 2.) Put in non-ISP based e-mails address as domain only,  this does not include Comcast.com, gmail, yahoo, or other bulk free e-mail servers.  It would do private corporations as domain only.   3.) When the list gets to 80% purge the 20% of the old entries 4.) Since the list is stored in order of last to first and fills from the bottom, delete the top entries and resort.  2048 entries of 30-50 characters can't be that large.  Even if it was 50 bytes each x 2048 entries = 102,400 bytes.  It should not take 200D that long to accomplish.