Fortinet FortiMail Valuable Features

EG
Manager for Information Technology at BIC

The GUI interface is great. 

The way we can configure security policies is very easy.

We found the initial setup to be mostly straightforward. 

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Andras Solt - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Security at Groupama

The spam filtering is great. The key functionality is email filtering. 

The antivirus and most of the filtering functionality are quite useful. We use it daily. 

It offers reasonable pricing.

The solution is stable. 

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Esteban Lora - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

The antiphishing capabilities are very good. 

It has good antispam features. 

The solution is stable. 

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Buyer's Guide
Fortinet FortiMail
March 2024
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Ahmed-Dawood - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at Oriental Weavers

The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiMail is its fully detailed dashboard. Fortinet FortiMail is fully integrated with other Fortinet products, including the firewall, the analyzer, and the manager.

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Rias_Majeed - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Consultant at Exceed NetSec Computer Trd LLC

FortiMail possesses notable strengths, and one key feature is its store-and-forward concept.

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Letarik Terefe - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Project manager and Development Team Leader at Ethiopian Roads Administration

It is one of the most efficient solutions in our environment. We have more than nine hundred users. All of these users are protected by Fortinet FortiMail.          

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NN
Security Engineers at SARS

The most valuable feature of the solution is its interface, allowing users to get around the solution easily. The integration capabilities in the solution are also very easy.

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Syed-Ashraf - PeerSpot reviewer
National food at Qarshi industries pvt ltd

The key features that I find valuable are the ones related to securing our email server. After implementing FortiMail, the spam, and malicious emails we receive have significantly reduced, making it much simpler to manage. So it has made email server management much simpler.

FortiMail offers a user-friendly GUI interface, which makes it easy for administrators to browse and use. The interface is designed well, and it simplifies the administration.

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MOHAN SUKUMAR - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of computer systems at Indian Institute of Space Science & Technology(IIST)

Fortinet FortiMail is a complete product addressing mail security concerns. It helps to know spam subscriptions and create restriction policies. 

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Oscar Mburu - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Admin at NCWSC

The key benefits of this solution are its user-friendly interface and clear instructions, as well as the wealth of online resources and helpful health community available for support. These features make it easy for users to navigate and utilize the solution effectively.

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Sachin Vinay - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at Amrita

The anti-spam feature is very valuable. For example, recently, some recent spam mails were correctly blocked by Fortinet FortiMail. Additionally, the solution has an excellent user interface.

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GeorgesNassif - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Manager at Triple C

The user quarantine feature in the solution is good. Not all the solutions have user quarantine features since they mostly have system quarantine features. The integration with Active Directory is great. The solution's antispam is really very efficient, especially the greylisting. Recently, the protection against impersonation is doing a great job.

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FP
Head of Security Management at Ipko Telecommunications

Fortinet FortiMail has a lot of valuable features. It works great. It also has an antivirus feature.

Support for Fortinet FortiMail was also great when my team wanted to block some geographic IPs, but couldn't figure out how to do it. The support team provided clear communication on how to resolve that issue.

Another valuable feature of Fortinet FortiMail is SPAM filtering which tells you how many spammy emails you've received.

Based on my current use cases, I'm happy with Fortinet FortiMail.

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Ahmed Hawana - PeerSpot reviewer
Network and Security Engineer at IDSC

It is a great product.

The product is easy to use.

Its performance is very good and it is stable.

We've found the product offers fair, reasonable pricing.

The security is quite good overall.

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SM
Tecnical manager at Watronix Information Technology Ltd

The most valuable feature of the solution is the tool's ability to prevent phishing attacks.

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ZH
CEO at Prosperátor Kft.

The solution is easy to use and easy to configure. It has a very high level of security through special licensing with solutions like FortiGuard, sandboxing solutions in the cloud, and URL rewriting solutions. They are very helpful and secure.

We can install FortiMail products in two different types of installations. One is the security gateway, the inner gateway, and the other is the enterprise mail server. But we never used this product as an enterprise mail server, only a security gateway.

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Muhammad Kamran Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Information Security at NCCPL

The solution has all the essential email scanning features, including bulk scanning, fraud detection, etc.

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SomaiaNabil - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cybersecurity Presales at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

One major benefit of the Fortinet FortiMail product is its ease of management. Second, it offers a sender authentication feature that can be used at the gateway or with third-party applications. These are some of the valuable features.

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Furqan Ahmed - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at Pronet

They have a feature called CDR, Content Disarm, Reconstruction, click protection, and DLP for encryption purposes.

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Hani Asaad - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Presales Consultant at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

They offer a range of features like firewalls, email, endpoint security, etc. Fortinet’s support services are good. We can provide a demo for customers to see email filtering during their POC.

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DD
ICT Manager at Nic. J. Theocarakis

This solution has a very clean user interface. It's agnostic to whatever environment you're using behind it. My email servers are HCL Domino servers now and it's easy to implement - they have very good sandbox for checking email without the danger of opening them.

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IA
Group IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

This a user-friendly solution.

Troubleshooting is very simple because you can see where the email was not delivered and why it would be considered as spam. For the IT team, it is important, because when they are asked by management why their email was not sent or why was this email that was sent to me was considered as spam, they have the details that are needed to explain why. 

It is much better than IronPort for Cisco and Websense. 

For now, as per our experience with FortiMail in handling a large number of emails and spams as well, in the past three years, we have been protected and saved from any attacks from the outside. This is one of the main reasons we will continue to use FortiMail.

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MM
Network Administrator at Mahreq Group

The solution helps me to do internal routing and to configure interfaces. FortiMail works on the profile.

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Bruno Moreira - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Consultant at SigmaTelecom

The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiMail are its virus outbreak prevention and FortiSandbox integration.

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SC
Owner at Ampec Data Service srl

The biggest implementation my team has done for Fortinet FortiMail was for more than five thousand people, and the most valuable feature was its anti-spam feature.

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Fahad Zuberi - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy General Manager ICT Presales at Spartan tech

The solution has a user-friendly interface. It is easy to deploy and handle. You can easily troubleshoot the issues of the solution.

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Nikorn Soemklang - PeerSpot reviewer
Director - Technical & Services at Bangkok Business Solutions

The anti-spam and the IPS to help block items and attachments that come with the email are both quite helpful. It can block a lot of fake emails.

The initial setup is easy.

I have found the product to be stable. 

The solution can scale. 

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MH
Senior Security Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's a very good product.

The integration with FortiSandbox is good, and something that we utilize often.

FortiSandbox refers to any files that are sent via email. FortiMail takes the file and forwards it to the FortiSandbox to analyze the file and sends the report to the FortiMail, who can then release or stop the email.

Both logging and reporting are very good, as well as the antivirus profiles, content emails, content profile, and application profile.

They have good transparency of customizations.

We use all of the product's features, including anti-spam profiles, content profiles, and antivirus profiles.

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Jean Youni - PeerSpot reviewer
Pre Sales Engineer at Triple C

Overall, I'm satisfied with Fortinet FortiMail.

I like that it has reasonable pricing. I also like that it's very good compared to its competitors and has many features.

I like the anti-spam and security features of Fortinet FortiMail, and that its features complement each other.

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ElisoBrito - PeerSpot reviewer
Analista de Suporte at NCT Informática

The Fabric aspect of the solution is excellent. With it, we have more accuracy in the classification. All the other functions and features on FortiMail are great. I love them all. It's really solid. All of the principal features on the market can be found in this product. 

I love the integration between Fortinet products.

It's easy to set up.

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SJ
Network Security Engineer at netfiniti

The most valuable features are the granular features of antispam and strong antivirus database.

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GS
Information Security Officer at State Audit Office

FortiMail is extremely flexible and very easy to learn. Compared to other email security products that we've tried, it is mainly the ease of configuration that makes FortiMail valuable to us.

It doesn't take an engineer to be able to get up and running with FortiMail, and one can get by with little more than the online documentation and YouTube, for example.

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Ahmet Coruk - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-founder at Korunet

The GUI isn't hard to use. When we do a demo and explain the features of Fortinet products to our customers, they understand very quickly. They can easily manage their systems without us. But other products are a little more complicated. For example, if we're talking about firewall systems, I use Palo Alto, but I prefer the Fortinet solution because it's easier to use. They're effortless. When I try to configure the SD-WAN, it's just one or two clicks. I can route all applications with the destination. It's no problem for me. The other configuration also is very easy. Palo Alto may be more powerful for inspection, but my priority is making the customer happy. Also, they have the Fabric architecture, so when we sell one Fortinet product to the government, we can easily sell the others because they have the Fabric architecture as well. We are working with other products from different companies, but if you ask about email solutions, we prefer FortiMail.

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RS
Database/Server Specialist Computer Services at a university with 201-500 employees

We have several of these solutions in place. We do have, as of late, spam outbreaks. This solution has been pretty reliable in dealing with them. 

The solution can scale.

The solution is mostly stable.

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YR
Manager IT at OTE

I think the spamming feature is very valuable. One of the features of FortiMail is the sandbox. If any suspicious or malicious thing is detected, it uploads to the FortiMail, and then to the database, and then it's checked. Once it's confirmed that the mail is good content, then it's moved inside and forwarded to its destination. So the sandboxing is a really valuable feature. 

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WH
Cyber Security Solutions Manager at Summit Technology Solution

Personally, I believe that FortiMail is a very good antispam solution. Clients use this solution as well for anti-spam and anti-phishing.

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JG
Cyber Security Analyst at Sixtema Spa

I like the possibility of getting reports offered by this solution, which is better than what Palo Alto offered. It is a very reliable program and it works great.

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BA
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The most valuable aspects of this solution are that it protects us from spam and phishing attacks. We had a lot of attacks coming in and then we deployed this solution and they stopped. We no longer have any spam or phishing issues. 

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Samaiea Fernandes - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Procurement at Bytes & Pieces

Fortinet FortiMail's most valuable features are its performance and security.

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VC
CEO & Technical Head Executive at ChellSoft Technologies

It actually filters the compromised emails when on a network layer itself.

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AV
Manager Information Technology and Technical at Amadeus Gulf

The most valuable feature of this solution is the spam filter.

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FM
Network and Communications Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have used the solution as a mandatory tool in our infrastructure. It's kept some of the spam email and stuff like that out. As a security layer, we've have added Fortimail for security as the mail gateway. 

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HS
Group Senior Network Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

One of the features I like the best and find most valuable is the gray list feature. You can mark a trusted domain to reduce interruptions and other domains you are not sure that you can trust you put in a gray list. The mechanism of this feature can greatly decrease the number of spam emails and helps determine which are under more scrutiny, but it is also not a total block. You can put domains as blacklisted which just blocks delivery. This mechanism and level of control are awesome in FortiMail.

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MA
Network and System Administrator at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Fortinet FortiMail's most valuable features are antispam, antivirus, database, and data loss prevention (DLP).

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SP
Security Team Leader at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The most valuable features of this solution are anti-spam, sender reputation, and antivirus.

This is a good multi-tenant solution.

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MA
Security Technical Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Fortinet FortiMail is easy to use and the detection rate is very good. You can customize content filters and profiles are done easily. Additionally, there is a sandbox integration feature that is good.

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DD
Owner at TECHNICOM

This solution has many good features. The number of false positives is minimal.

It is easy to use and integrates well with FortiSandbox.

It's very contextual, and the reporting is good.

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EK
Security Engineer at Eguardian lanka

When combining this solution with other Fortinet products, such as FortiGate, it integrates well and provides a comprehensive protection package.

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it_user433407 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Engineer at a tech company with 11-50 employees
  • Spam detection from FortiGuard Antispam Service and FortiMail antispam techniques; session based and application based.
  • Inbound and outbound inspection
  • Supports multiple domains/subdomains
  • Mail routing
  • Block/safe list based on e-mail addresses, domains or IP addresses
  • DNS black list scan
  • Banned word and dictionary scan
  • Image scanning
  • PDF scanning
  • Suspicious newsletter detection
  • Greylisting
  • Bidirectional email translation using Address Mapping to hide protected domains from the external networks
  • Sender reputation to prevent overload from high volume spams, mails with invalid recipients or infected messages
  • Access delivery and receive rules
  • Content monitor and filtering
  • Recipient-based and IP-based policies
  • User/group query options
  • Mail data migration from existing mail server to FortiMail (Serrver Mode)
  • Resource profiles; disk space quota, user access to address books
  • Built-in agenda
  • NFS and iSCSI support
  • RAID support
  • SMTP authentication via LDAP, RADIUS, POP3, IMAP
  • Per user inspection based on LDAP attributes
  • Mail queue management
  • Easy management using web GUI or CLI
  • Logging and reporting
  • High-Availability with quarantine and mail queue synchronization
  • Fortinet FortiMail is an industry-leading, multi-layered messaging security tool based on price and performance.
  • Scalable solution from SME to the largest ISP and carrier networks, delivers long term investment protection
  • Real-time Update from FortiGuard; signature database updating from FDN
  • Sandbox integration (optional)
  • Flexible and easy deployment in three modes (gateway, server with fully e-mail server features, and transparent).
  • End-to end IBE
  • Advanced bi-directional filtering
  • Multi-layer threat detection and protection
  • Data Leak Prevention, Policy based encryption, Archiving
  • Traffic analysis
  • No per-user or per-mailbox pricing
  • It’s the only messaging security solution on the market that supports transparent mode inspection.
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AR
CSSRI with 201-500 employees

I am actually looking for new a new solution at the moment, possibly Forcepoint or Arbor. This solution is good for us, but we hope to implement a new solution with Fortinet.

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EK
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The anti-spam and anti-virus features are the most valuable.

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IQ
Branch Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

I find it to be easy to use and to manage.

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Buyer's Guide
Fortinet FortiMail
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Fortinet FortiMail. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.