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The following articles outline topics relating to FortiMail

Navigating the GUI 

System Settings and Administrative Options

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Useful FortiGate CLI troubleshooting commands

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Specifying a domain name suffix for DHCP clients on a FortiGate (FortiOS)

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Domain Name Suffix You can specify a domain name suffix in a DHCP address pool on the FortiGate DHCP server . With this suffix assigned, the client only needs to input part of a domain name, and the system adds the domain name suffix for name resolution. For example a client can type in https://fortimanager in their web browser to access your fortimanager instance, instead of the FQDN of https://fortimanager.domain.local In FortiOS (current as of December 2022) this is configured via the CLI.   Configuration config system dhcp server     edit <#>          set domain <domain suffix>   In a full context this would be config system dhcp server     edit 1          set domain "lab.example.com"          set default-gateway 192.168.1.1          set netmask 255.255.255.0          set interface "p...
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FortiGate Firewall Policy Logging Settings

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 A FortiGate firewall has 3 settings that can affect logging behavior on a policy. The three settings that can affect logging behavior on a FortiGate firewall policy are: The Log allowed traffic toggle The "Security Events" or "All Sessions" selection The available security profiles   The following table outlines the expected logging behavior when these different settings are combined: For example, enabling logging and selecting security events, while not enabling any security profiles, will result in no logs. You may as well have logging turned off.
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