FortiMail 3.0 Avaialble for Download

FortiMail version 3.0 (announced few days ago) is available for download from support FTP. You can also try a Web-based demo if you know a secret password.

Fortinet announces FortiMail Version 3.0

On August 3rd Fortinet posted documentation and release noted for the new version of FortiMail - long awaited 3.0. These version is not available for download yet, but based on release notes it looks like this version should be 2.9, not a 3.0 as there are no major improvements in this versions.

It looks like Fortinet would like to have all products to be branded as version 3.x and this is the only reason to switch from 2.x to 3.x

According to documents released FortiMail 3.0 have the following new functionality:

• Upgraded kernel to address software RAID issues on the FortiMail-400
• A global Bayesian database
• Multiple antispam actions per antispam profile
• System quarantine support for outgoing email
• Bayesian scan support for outgoing email
• GUI access for the system quarantine administration user
• Email alias enhancements to allow an alias list to contain itself as a member
• Aggressive image scanning
• RBL renamed to DNSBL
• Domain configuration enhancements to allow the local domain to be the same as the mail server's domain
• DDNS enhancements
• Relay server SMTP authentication support
• GUI enhancements to allow accessing a profile directly from the policy page
• Support for a second syslog server
• Support for AV updates through an HTTPS proxy
• Greylisting improvements to make the initial expiry period configurable, increase the supported greylist database entries on high end units and bypass greylisting for an authorized client
• An option to reset custom messages to defaults
• Support to customize the spam report subject line and the Webmail login banner
• A re-ordering of the black/whitelist processing order
• Dictionary and banned word logging improvements to add the word that triggered the filter to the log message
• Portuguese language support added for Webmail