Configuring account settings
The following procedure is part of the email archive account configuration process. For general procedures about how to configure an archive account, see
“Configuring email archiving accounts”. For information about how to use the email archiving feature, see
“Email archiving workflow”.
1. Go to Email Archiving > Archive Accounts.
2. Click New to create a new account or double click on an existing account to edit it.
3. For a new account, enter its name.
This account name holds archived email. You also use this account name as the login user name if you want to access archived email remotely through IMAP. Do not include spaces in the name.
4. In Password, enter the password for IMAP access if you want to access archived email remotely. Also enable IMAP access .
5. In Forward to, if you require it, enter an email address to which the FortiMail unit will forward a copy when it archives an email.
6. For Index type, specify whether you want to index the archived email. Email indexing helps to search the email messages in the archives more quickly. You can choose to index the email headers or the entire email messages.
7. Enable Email archiving status. If the account is not enabled, you cannot select it in other places where it is used.
8. Enable IMAP access if you want to access email archives through IMAP access.