Outbound Mail throttling with FortiMail?

[berni72]

Hi all,

i am in a situation where i need to throttle the outbound mail flow to upstream servers in order to prevent flooding.

Is this possible at all with FortiMail appliances? I didn't find anything useful in the documentations yet.

Use-case is:

The company sends every once in a while quite large amounts of (legitimate!) information mails to a lot of customers, including for example billing information.

Any idea how this can be accomplished with FortiMail?

[wilson]

Hello,

I have the same issue, is there any option o newer version that helps accomplish this???

[Carl_Windsor_FTNT]

You are both going to be pleased with the imminent 6.0 release then (ETA end of the month).  I will post the full features list in the next few days.

[Dirty_Wizard_FTNT]

Limits per 30 minutes per client can be imposed with Connection Settings on Session Profile.

http://help.fortinet.com/fmail/5-4-3/admin/index.html#page/FortiMail_Online_Help/profile_09_03.html

Limits per 30 minutes per sender address can be imposed with Sender Address Rate Control.

http://help.fortinet.com/fmail/5-4-3/admin/index.html#page/FortiMail_Online_Help/domain_user_07_12.h...

Though I don't understand why the use case requires throttling.