Verifying Recipients in FortiMail

[Rick_H]

I am trialing a FortiMail and am running 5.2.3. I am trying to determine if the FortiMail can verify inbound recipients a la Barracuda's Exchange Accelerator. I have an LDAP connection setup and it is working correctly. My internal users can login as themselves to check quarantines, etc. However, I'm not seeing how to setup a policy to check that an internal recipient exists via this LDAP connection before processing mail. Is this possible?

Any other tips or gotchas for first-time installs? Anything is appreciated. For what it is worth, I do have the device up and processing mail in one direction (inbound). Outbound is planned for phase 2 of my trial. So far it is a fair bit better than my DIY (Kaspersky-based) system. I just need to make sure I get the most out of my 60 days.

-rick

[Bromont_FTNT · Accepted solution]

If you edit your domain under Mail Settings ---> Domains you should see Recipient Address Verification settings where you can pick your LDAP server.

Outbound flow will require an access control policy allowing mail from your internal mail server.

[Rick_H]

Oh, wow, that was way too easy. I didn't even consider looking there. I figured it just HAD to be in the Policy section somewhere. Thanks!

-rick

[emnoc]

Mail setting  > domain  and you can enable rcpt-verification from this point. Just monitor your mail statistics for the 1st couple of hours or have some one send to a bogus RCPT