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Article Id 209547
Description This article describes how to test the anti-spam engine on a phishing URL.
Scope FortiGate.
Solution

Assuming that an email-filter is already configured, use FortiGuard to get a testing URL: https://www.fortiguard.com/webfilter/categories

 

In the category 'Phishing', get a URL for 'Full SSL INSPECTION'.

 

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Example test URL for email content: https://www.fortiguard.com/wftest/61.html

 

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FortiGate will block it and will generate the log:

 

type="utm" subtype="emailfilter" eventtype="spam" level="notice" vd="root" policyid=33 sessionid=2982914 <output omitted >msg="email is reported as spam by ASE"  size="237" attachment="no"