Logs, reports and alerts : Configuring alert email : Configuring alert categories
Configuring alert categories
Before the FortiMail unit can send alert email messages, you must specify which events cause the FortiMail unit to send an alert email message to your list of alert email recipients (see “Configuring alert recipients”).
To access this part of the web UI, your administrator account’s:
• Domain must be System
• access profile must have Read or Read-Write permission to the Others category
For details, see “About administrator account permissions and domains”.
To select events that will trigger an alert email message
1. Go to Log and Report > Alert Email > Categories.
2. Select one or more of the following event categories check boxes:
 
GUI item
Description
Virus incidents
Send an alert email message when the FortiMail unit detects a virus.
Critical events
Send an alert email message when an important system event occurs. These include system reboot/reload, firmware upgrade/downgrade, and log disk/mail disk formatting.
Disk is full
Send an alert email message when the hard disk of the FortiMail unit is full.
Remote archiving/NAS failures
Send an alert email message when the remote archiving feature encounters one or more failures.See “Configuring email archiving accounts”.
HA events
Send an alert email message when any high availability (HA) event occurs.
When a FortiMail unit is operating in HA mode, the subject line of the alert email includes the host name of the cluster member. If you have configured a different host name for each member of the cluster, this lets you identify which FortiMail unit in the HA cluster sent the alert email message. For more information, see “About logging, alert email and SNMP in HA”.
Disk quota of an account is exceeded
Send an alert email message when an email user’s account exceeds its quota of hard disk space.
This option is available only if the FortiMail unit is in server mode.
Dictionary is corrupted
Send an alert email message when a dictionary is corrupt.
System quarantine/Email Archive quota is exceeded
Send an alert email message when the system quarantine or any email archiving account reaches its quota of hard disk space. For more information on the system quarantine, see “Configuring the system quarantine settings”. For information about email archiving account quota, see “Configuring rotation settings”.
Deferred emails
Send an alert email message if the deferred email queue contains greater than this number of email messages. Enter a number between 1 and 10 000 to define the alert threshold, then enter the interval of time between each alert email message that the FortiMail unit will send while the number of email messages in the deferred email queue remains over this limit.
FortiGuard license expiry time
Send an alert email when the FortiGuard license is to expire in the number of days entered. Enter a number between 1 and 100.