Configuring Spam Filtering Options - Fortinet FortiGate FortiGate-1000 Administration Manual

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Configuring spam filtering options

Figure 109:Protection profile spam filtering options
The following options are available for spam filtering through the protection profile.
See "Spam filter" on page 337
IP address BWL check
RBL & ORDBL check
IP address FortiShield
check
HELO DNS lookup
E-mail address BWL
check
Return e-mail DNS check Enable or disable checking that the domain specified in the reply-to
MIME headers check
Banned word check
Spam Action
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for more spam filter configuration options.
Black/white list check. Enable or disable checking incoming IP
addresses against the configured spam filter IP address list. (SMTP
only.)
Enable or disable checking traffic against configured Real-time
Blackhole List and Open Relay Database List servers.
Enable or disable the Fortinet spam filtering IP address blacklist:
FortiShield. See "FortiShield IP address black list and spam filter"
on page 339 for a description of this service.
Enable or disable looking up the source domain name (from the
SMTP HELO command) in the Domain Name Server.
Enable or disable checking incoming email addresses against the
configured spam filter email address list.
or from address has an A or MX record.
Enable or disable checking source MIME headers against the
configured spam filter MIME header list.
Enable or disable checking source email against the configured
spam filter banned word list.
The action for the spam filter to take. Tagged allows you to append
a custom tag to the subject or header of email identified as spam.
For SMTP, you can choose between tagged or discard. Discard
immediately drops the connection.
You can tag email by appending a custom word or phrase to the
subject or inserting a MIME header and value into the email header.
You can choose to log any spam action in the event log.
Note: Choosing to tag spam email messages automatically disables
splice.
Choose to append the tag to the subject or MIME header of the
email identified as spam.
Enter a word or phrase (tag) to append to email identified as spam.
The maximum length is 63 characters.
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