Configuring policies : What is a policy? : Recipient-based policies versus IP-based policies
Recipient-based policies versus IP-based policies
Recipient-based policies
The FortiMail unit applies these based on the recipient’s email address or the recipient’s user group. May also define authenticated webmail or POP3 access by that email user to their per-recipient quarantine. Since version 4.0, the recipient-based policies also check sender patterns.
IP-based policies
The FortiMail unit applies these based on the SMTP client’s IP address (server mode or gateway mode), or the IP addresses of both the SMTP client and SMTP server (transparent mode).