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May 20, 2026
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FortiMail best practices with a Bulk email service provider?

  • May 20, 2026
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Hey everyone,

We’re reviewing our outbound mail flow with FortiMail and wanted to ask if anyone here is using a Bulk email service provider alongside Fortinet infrastructure for newsletters or transactional email delivery.

I’ve been testing a few services, including DigitalAka™, mainly to improve deliverability and reduce reputation issues on production mail servers. Curious to know what configurations or relay setups others are using with FortiMail.

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AEK
SuperUser
SuperUser
May 20, 2026

Hi Raju

The USB port on FGT is not for management purpose.

You have to connect either on console port (serial connection) or on a LAN port (Ethernet).

AEK
sw2090
SuperUser
SuperUser
May 21, 2026

We do that here for newsletters. We use a specific provider for this so it doesn’t affect our FortiMail. One just should make sure that this is in SPF Record etc.