Tuesday, April 22, 2008

FortiMail 3.0 MR3 - Better Stats, MTA & Spam Engine

Fortinet recently Released a Maintenance Release 3 for FortiMail 3.0 with many new features improving statistics display, mail storage & forwarding enhancements and new spam defence mechanisms.

System Enhancements:

  • Real Time Email Statistics Mail statistics can now be displayed in real time with historical hourly, daily, monthly and yearly reports available.
  • Improved Backup and Restore Capability Backup and restore capability now extended to include black/white lists (user, domain, system and session) and custom messages in addition to the system configuration.
  • Mail Storage Performance Improvements
  • Tiered Admin when in Server Mode
  • Increased Number of Admin domains
  • Override server can be specified for FortiGuard updates and queries.
  • Logging enhancements Received IP and name/date stamping and file type details added to log message format. In addition log messages have been extended to avoid truncation of information.
  • SNMP Monitoring HA Monitor variable introduced – requires an updated MIB file.

Mail Handling Enhancements:

  • Enhanced Access Control Rules Provides the ability to limit access based on sender/recipient email or IP address.
  • Enhanced Address Mapping at domain / sub-domain level
  • Multiple IP selection for outgoing email
  • Deferred Queue Management Controls
  • Support for intermediate CA Certificate handling
  • Option to disable ESMTP support
  • Secondary LDAP Server support
  • LDAP cache handling performance enhancements

AntiSpam Enhancements:

  • Sender Policy Framework (SPF), DomainKeys, DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM)
  • Centralised Quarantine
  • Central Administration of User Preferences
  • Domain Level Black and White lists
  • Quarantine Search Capability
  • Allow domain level timing for release message
  • Content level white listing, for message body or subject line.
  • Support for local FortiManager database query

WEBMAIL Enhancements:

  • Quarantine Alias
  • Multi-Language Support, default language, customized languages
  • Folder Support
  • User level option to disable SPAM report

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