Configuring profiles : Configuring content profiles and content action profiles : Configuring content profiles
Configuring content profiles
The Content tab lets you create content profiles, which you can use to match email based upon its subject line, message body, and attachments.
Unlike antispam profiles, which deal primarily with spam, content profiles match any other type of email.
You can use content profiles to apply content-based encryption to email, or to restrict prohibited content, such as words or phrases, file names, and file attachments that are not permitted by your network usage policy. You can apply content profiles to email that you want to protect and email that you want to prevent.
 
For more information on determining directionality, see “Incoming versus outgoing email messages” and ““Incoming versus outgoing SMTP connections”.
To access this part of the web UI, your administrator account’s access profile must have Read or Read-Write permission to the Policy category. For details, see ““About administrator account permissions and domains”.
To view and configure content profiles
1. Go to Profile > Content > Content.
 
GUI item
Description
Clone
(button)
Click the row corresponding to the profile whose settings you want to duplicate when creating the new profile, then click Clone. A single-field dialog appears. Enter a name for the new profile. Click OK.
Domain
(drop-down list)
Select System to see profiles for the entire FortiMail unit, or select a protected domain name to see profiles for that domain. You can see only the domains that are permitted by your administrator profile.
Profile Name
Displays the name of the profile.
Domain Name
(column)
Displays either System or the name of a domain
Direction
Select either Incoming to see profiles that can be used by an incoming policy, or Outgoing to see profiles that can be used by an outgoing policy. For definitions of outgoing and incoming email, see “Incoming versus outgoing email messages”.
(Green dot in column heading)
Indicates whether or not the entry is currently referred to by another item in the configuration. If another item is using this entry, a red dot appears in this column, and the entry cannot be deleted.
2. Either click New to add a profile or double-click a profile to modify it.
A multisection dialog appears.
3. For a new profile, select System in the Domain list to see profiles that apply to t he entire FortiMail unit or the name of a protected domain.
4. For a new profile, enter its name.
5. In Direction, select either Incoming for a profile that can be used by an incoming policy, or Outgoing for a profile that can be used by an outgoing policy. For definitions of outgoing and incoming email, see “Incoming versus outgoing email messages”.
6. In Action, select a content action profile to use. For details, see “Configuring content action profiles”.
7. Configure the following sections as needed:
• “Configuring attachment scan rules”
• “Configuring file filters”
• “Configuring scan conditions”
• “Configuring content monitor and filtering”
8. Click Create or OK to save the entire content profile.