Viewing the email statistics
The Mail Statistics tab contains summaries of the numbers of email messages in each time period that the FortiMail unit detected as containing viruses, spam, or neither.
For email messages classified as spam, mail statistics include which FortiMail feature classified the email as spam, such as Bayesian antispam databases, access control rules, the system-wide black list, or email user-configured black lists.
For email not classified as spam by any antispam scan, mail statistics label it as Not Spam.
In addition to viewing overall trends via the graph, you can also view details at each point in time. To view these details, hover your mouse over a bar in the graph. A tool tip appears next to that point on the graph, including the name of the antispam category, message count, and percentage relative to the overall mail volume at that time.
To use the Mail Statistics tab, first configure your FortiMail unit to detect spam and/or viruses. For more information, see “Configuring profiles” on page 482 and “Configuring policies” on page 453.
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” on page 290.
To view mail statistics, go to Monitor > System Status > Mail Statistics.
Figure 66:Statistics History widget
Table 13:Statistics History widget features
| GUI item | Description |
| Antispam history
(drop-down list) |
This untitled list, lets you view antispam statistics in a variety of time segments; everything from by-the-minute to by-the-year. |
| Message direction
(drop-down list) |
This untitled list lets you filter the mail statistics by email directions. For details about email directions, see “Incoming versus outgoing email messages” on page 454.
• All: All email messages processed by the FortiMail unit. • Incoming: Email messages destined for protected domains. • Outgoing: Email messages destined for unprotected domains. • Unknown: SMTP connections that are rejected or discarded before the FortiMail unit starts to process the email messages. For example, some connections may be rejected due to sender reputation or sender rate limit. At this stage, the FortiMail unit does not even know the email message’s destination yet. For details about the execution order of FortiMail antispam techniques, see “Order of execution” on page 16. |
| Display type
(drop-down list) |
This untitled list lets your set statistics in a pie chart or bar graph. |
Table 13:Statistics History widget features
Refresh Click to manually refresh the page, displaying current email statistics.
(circular arrows icon on the right side of each section’s title bar)
Setting Select the interval, such as 30 seconds, between automatic refreshes of the page. Refreshing the page displays current email statistics.
(gear icon on the right side of each section’s title bar)
Viewing the list of current IP sessions
The Sessions tab displays information about the TCP sessions in established state, to and from the FortiMail unit.
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” on page 290.
To view the session list, go to Monitor > System Status > Sessions.
Using the CLI Console
Go to Monitor > System Status > Console to access the CLI without exiting from the web UI.
You can click the Open in New Window button to move the CLI Console into a pop-up window that you can resize and reposition.
For more information about CLI commands, see the FortiMail CLI Reference.
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