Fortimail 7.0 series Banned words

[NeoRant]

Hi community

Can someone kindly assisting in guiding me how to enter banned words in Fortimail via CLI - in a batch? Is it possible?

I have over 300 of them, clearly not to be entered one by one in the gui.

[AEK · Accepted solution]

Hi NeoRant

Here is how to do with CLI, however it is still not feasible to do it manually, so either use a good text editor that helps you automatize creating your command file, or use a python script to generate your command file from a csv file containing your banned words.

config profile antispam
 edit AS_Custom
  config bannedwords

   edit word1
    set body enable 
    set subject enable 
    next

   edit word2
    set body enable
    set subject enable
    next

   edit word3
    set body enable
    set subject enable
    next

   end
end

Hope it helps

[NeoRant]

Hello AEK,

You always save the day, thanks. I did this with some modification by using char(10) in excel to include multiple words imported from a txt file. However, when i run this script in fortimail cli, it creates a new AS system profile with the new inserted banned words. I would like to modify my existing domain wide profile, not create a new AS sys profile. Could you guide, is this possible to edit ur domain AS profile in cli?

[AEK]

Hi NeoRant

Happy to help.

Just replace "AS_Custom" above by your existing AS profile name.

[NeoRant]

Hi AEK,

I already did, but it keeps creating a new system AS profile of name i specified. I want to actually edit my existing domain AS profile. Strange indeed.

[AEK]

So after this operation you find two AS with same name?!

[NeoRant]

Hi AEK,

Yes indeed. I just want to edit an existing AS profile for my internal domain, not System.

[NeoRant]

AEK,

The script works great but it does not edit an existing AS profile, it by default just creates a new system-domain profile with the banned words. Is there a way i could copy banned words from fortimail system domain to  the protected domain?

[AEK]

Hi NeoRant

I tested in my lab on FML 7.0.7.

I executed the commands that I provided above and it worked just fine, I mean it edited an existing (AS_Custom) profile and it did not add a new profile.

I'm listing the trace of the execution here below so you can see the steps and result.

FML # config profile antispam
FML (antispam) # show
config profile antispam
 edit AS_Inbound
  set uri-filter-status enable
  config dnsbl-server
   edit bl.spamcop.net
   next
  end
  set behavior-analysis enable
  config surbl-server
   edit multi.surbl.org
   next
  end
  set heuristic enable
  config bannedwords
  end
  config safelistwords
  end
  set scan-max-size 1024
  set action-deep-header TagSubjectSuspicious
  set action-default UserQuarantine
  set action-suspicious-newsletter TagSubjectSuspicious
  set action-newsletter TagSubjectNewsletter
  set action-uri-filter-secondary TagSubjectSuspiciousURI
  set action-spf-sender-alignment TagSubjectSuspicious
  next
 edit AS_Inbound_High
  set uri-filter-status enable
  set uri-filter-secondary-status enable
  set spam-outbreak-protection enable
  set suspicious-newsletter-status enable
  set newsletter-status enable
  set greylist enable
  config dnsbl-server
   edit bl.spamcop.net
   next
  end
  set behavior-analysis enable
  config surbl-server
   edit multi.surbl.org
   next
  end
  set heuristic enable
  set heuristic-rules-percent 50
  config bannedwords
  end
  config safelistwords
  end
  set scan-max-size 1024
  set action-deep-header TagSubjectSuspicious
  set action-default UserQuarantine
  set action-suspicious-newsletter TagSubjectSuspicious
  set action-newsletter TagSubjectNewsletter
  set action-uri-filter-secondary TagSubjectSuspiciousURI
  set action-spf-sender-alignment TagSubjectSuspicious
 next
 edit AS_Outbound
  set fortiguard-check-ip disable
  set spf-checking disable
  config dnsbl-server
  end
  config surbl-server
   edit multi.surbl.org
   next
  end
  config bannedwords
  end
  config safelistwords
  end
  set scan-max-size 1024
  set action-default Reject
 next
 edit AS_Custom
  set fortiguard-check-ip disable
  set spf-checking disable
  config dnsbl-server
  end
  config surbl-server
  end
  config bannedwords
  end
  config safelistwords
  end
  set scan-max-size 1024
  set action-default Reject
 next
end

FML (antispam) # edit AS_Custom
FML (AS_Custom) # config bannedwords

FML (bannedwords) # edit word1
FML (word1) # set body enable
FML (word1) # set subject enable
FML (word1) # next

FML (bannedwords) # edit word2
FML (word2) # set body enable
FML (word2) # set subject enable
FML (word2) # next

FML (bannedwords) # edit word3
FML (word3) # set body enable
FML (word3) # set subject enable
FML (word3) # next

FML (bannedwords) # end
FML (AS_Custom) # end

FML # config profile antispam
FML (antispam) # show
config profile antispam
 edit AS_Inbound
  set uri-filter-status enable
  config dnsbl-server
   edit bl.spamcop.net
   next
  end
  set behavior-analysis enable
  config surbl-server
   edit multi.surbl.org
   next
  end
  set heuristic enable
  config bannedwords
  end
  config safelistwords
  end
  set scan-max-size 1024
  set action-deep-header TagSubjectSuspicious
  set action-default UserQuarantine
  set action-suspicious-newsletter TagSubjectSuspicious
  set action-newsletter TagSubjectNewsletter
  set action-uri-filter-secondary TagSubjectSuspiciousURI
  set action-spf-sender-alignment TagSubjectSuspicious
 next
 edit AS_Inbound_High
  set uri-filter-status enable
  set uri-filter-secondary-status enable
  set spam-outbreak-protection enable
  set suspicious-newsletter-status enable
  set newsletter-status enable
  set greylist enable
  config dnsbl-server
   edit bl.spamcop.net
   next
  end
  set behavior-analysis enable
  config surbl-server
   edit multi.surbl.org
   next
  end
  set heuristic enable
  set heuristic-rules-percent 50
  config bannedwords
  end
  config safelistwords
  end
  set scan-max-size 1024
  set action-deep-header TagSubjectSuspicious
  set action-default UserQuarantine
  set action-suspicious-newsletter TagSubjectSuspicious
  set action-newsletter TagSubjectNewsletter
  set action-uri-filter-secondary TagSubjectSuspiciousURI
  set action-spf-sender-alignment TagSubjectSuspicious
 next
 edit AS_Outbound
  set fortiguard-check-ip disable
  set spf-checking disable
  config dnsbl-server
  end
  config surbl-server
   edit multi.surbl.org
   next
  end
  config bannedwords
  end
  config safelistwords
  end
  set scan-max-size 1024
  set action-default Reject
 next
 edit AS_Custom
  set fortiguard-check-ip disable
  set spf-checking disable
  config dnsbl-server
  end
  config surbl-server
  end
  config bannedwords
   edit word1
    set subject enable
    set body enable
   next
   edit word2
    set subject enable
    set body enable
   next
   edit word3
    set subject enable
    set body enable
   next
  end
  config safelistwords
  end
  set scan-max-size 1024
  set action-default Reject
 next
end

[NeoRant]

Hi AEK,

Thank you so much. You are one of the kindest persons I have ever met in my life. Knowledgeable and willing to educate others. You are cybersecurity god. I will review cli commands and apply to my existing protected domain AS profile and provide an update(of course i will omit other features, i am just interested in adding banned words)