Technical Note: Configuring deferred message delivery
Description
This article describes the configuration that allows specific email accounts to send low priority or mass email in a convenient time of the day to save FortiMail resources.
Solution
- From the web management interface, go to System -> Mail Settings -> Mail Server Settings, expand the Deferred Message Delivery section, and choose the desired time window.
Save the changes.
- Go to Profile -> Content -> Content, create a new content profile, and enable the option Defer delivery of message on policy match.
Save the changes.
On versions 7.4 and 7.6, the option for Policy Match is enabled and a new action with defer is created.
 
- Finally, create a new recipient policy and enable the content profile. Go to Policy -> Recipient Policy -> Outbound, then select Create New.
In the Sender pattern, select the user account, LDAP, or email address group. In the Profile section, select the content profile just created.
- To test the configuration, try to send an email from an email account involved. To see the result, go to Monitor -> Log -> History -> Search button.
Search the email account. The classifier and disposition fields will result in that message being deferred for delivery.
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