Customizing the GUI appearance
The System > Customization > Appearance tab lets you customize the default appearance of the web‑based manager, per-recipient quarantine, and webmail pages with your own product name, product logo, and corporate logo.
You can customize the webmail interface language. If your preferred language is not currently installed, you can add it. You can also adjust the terms in existing language files. This can be useful for localizing terms within a language. For example, you could adjust the English language file to use spellings and terms specific to the locale of the United Kingdom, Australia, or the USA if your email users are most familiar with terminologies popular in those areas.
To access this part of the web UI, your administrator account’s:
• Domain must be System
• access profile must have Read-Write permission to the Others category
To customize the GUI appearance
1. Go to System > Customization > Appearance.
2. Click the arrow to expand Administration Interface and Webmail interface.
3. Configure the following to change appearance:
Table 57: Customizing the appearance of the FortiMail web UI and webmail
GUI item | Description |
Administration Interface section |
| Product name | Enter the name of the product. This name will precede Administrator Login in the title on the login page of the web UI. |
| Top logo | Select change to upload a graphic that will appear at the top of all pages in the web UI. The image’s dimensions must be 460 pixels wide by 36 pixels tall. For best results, use an image with a transparent background. Non-transparent backgrounds will not blend with the underlying theme graphic, resulting in a visible rectangle around your logo graphic. Note: Uploading a graphic overwrites the current graphic. The FortiMail unit does not retain previous or default graphics. If you want to revert to the current graphic, use your web browser to save a backup copy of the image to your management computer, enabling you to upload it again at a later time. |
| Default language | Select the default language for the display of the web‑based manager. You can configure a separate language preference for each administrator account. For details, see “Configuring administrator accounts” on page 147. |
Webmail interface section |
| Webmail login | Enter a word or phrase that will appears on top of the webmail login page, such as Webmail Login. |
| Login user name hint | Enter a hint for the user name, such as Your Email Address. This hint will appear as a mouse-over display on the login name field. |
| Webmail theme | Select a theme for the webmail GUI. |
| Webmail language | Select the language in which webmail pages will be displayed. By default, the FortiMail unit will use the same language as the web UI. For web UI language settings, see “Configuring system options” on page 124. |
| Webmail language customization | Displays the list of languages installed on the FortiMail unit in English and in their own language. • Download: Select a language in the list, then click this button to download the language’s resource file for that language. You can then edit the resource files using an XML editor that supports UTF-8. • Upload: Select a language in the list, then click this button to update the language’s resource file for this language from your management computer to the FortiMail unit. In addition to uploading new language resource files, you can also use this button to update existing languages. • Delete: Select a language in the list, then click this button to remove the language. This option is available only for non-default languages. |
| Web mail top logo | Click Change to upload a graphic that will appear at the top of all webmail pages. The image’s dimensions must be 314 pixels wide by 36 pixels tall. Note: Uploading a graphic overwrites the current graphic. The FortiMail unit does not retain previous or default graphics. If you want to revert to the current graphic, use your web browser to save a backup copy of the image to your management computer, enabling you to upload it again at a later time. |
| Custom login | Select this option then upload your own login page image to create a custom login page. |
4. Click Apply to save changes or Reset to return to the default settings.
To add a custom language
1. Go to System > Customization > Appearance.
2. Click the arrow to expand Webmail interface.
3. Underneath the list of language customizations, in Language name in English, enter the name for the new language using English and US-ASCII encoding, such as Welsh.
4. In Language name, enter the name for the language using its own characters and UTF-8 encoding.
5. Click Create.
The new language appears at the bottom of the webmail languages list.
6. Select the new language’s row.
7. Click Download and select Download login page resource file from the pop-up menu.
8. Click Download again and select Download webmail resource file.
Your web browser downloads both files.
9. Open both files in an XML editor or plain text editor that supports UTF-8 encoding.
10. For each value in the resource files, translate the word or phrase that is surrounded by double quotes ( " ). It will appear in the location indicated by the key’s name.
For example:
<resource key="report_spam" value="Report Spam"/>
indicates by key="report_spam" that the text is a label for the button that corrects the Bayesian scanner when it has not recognized an email that is spam. You could replace the contents of value (that is, Report Spam) with any text in your language that indicates the button’s function.
11. Save both files.
12. Return to the web UI.
13. Select the new language’s row.
14. Click Upload and select Upload login page resource file from the pop-up menu. Choose the login page resource file that you translated, then click OK.
15. Click Upload again and select Upload webmail resource file from the pop-up menu. Choose the login page resource file that you translated, then click OK.
16. Click Apply.
To verify your language, log in to FortiMail webmail and review the text that appears on each button, field, and menu item. If the characters appear garbled, verify that your web browser is interpreting the web page using the correct encoding.
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