After initial release of FortiMail 3.0 Fortinet recently provided 2 updates (Maintenance Release 1 & 2), which not only fixes some of the bugs, but also provides new spam filtering technologies and easier configuration options.
FortiMail 3.0 Maintenance Release 1 provides the following spam scanning enhancements:
- PDF Scanning that combines heuristic rules and image recognition technology
- Deep Header Scanning checks all message transmission path by examining e-mail "Received" headers
- Dynamic Heuristic Rules: instead of statically configured rules in previous versions MR1 uses FortiGuard infrastructure to deliver rules updates on the fly for better handling of new spam variants
FortiMail 3.0 Maintenance Release 2 is mainly focused on UI improvement. While ISP and MSSP users like highly customizable approach of FortiMail configuration many corporate users complained about configuration difficulties when only one domain with one security policy was needed. In order to help such customer MR2 introduces new management modes and wizards:
- Quick Start Wizard is added that provides streamlined step-by-step configuration for single e-mail domain environments
- 2 Management modes introduced: basic and advanced. Advanced mode is the same as previously available while basic mode is ideal for easier installation when only subset of full FortiMail functionality is needed.
- 2 Predefined Reports are added for statistics on previous day and last week
- High Availability settings are enhanced with HA Recovery mode setting
FortiMail 3.0 Maintenance Release 2 (MR2 Build 199) is available for download from support site.
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