Wednesday, 25 June 2014

How-to: Configure User Alias Options on a FortiMail

If your organisation is using aliases, it's generally a good idea to configure the 'User Alias Options' within the LDAP settings to ensure users only get one quarantine email for all their addresses, instead of one for each alias address.

To configure this, first edit the LDAP profile you've configured for your domain (found under Profile > LDAP) and expand the 'User Alias Options' section.

Ensure the tickbox has been enabled next-to 'User Alias Options', then configure your base DN, Bind DN and Bind password as normal. For the 'Alias member query' option use proxyAddresses=smtp:$m. Lastly untick the 'User group expansion in advance' box.

Your final configuration should look something like this:


To test this out click on the 'Test LDAP Query...' link near the top of the LDAP profile page. From here choose 'Alias' from the dropdown menu and type in your email address at the bottom. For the below example my normal email address is amouawad@wglab.com.au and my alias is allan@wglab.com.au.

Click on 'Test' and you should see the alias match!


4 comments:

Vladimir said...

Alan,

Thanks for your good work.

Regards,
Vladimir.

Anonymous said...

Great! Thanks alot.

Anonymous said...

To add to the post: If configuring "Recipient Verification" using LDAP, the alias mail would still get rejected unless the following settings is configured:
"Mail Settings > Domains > Advanced Settings > LDAP User alias / Address Mapping profile". Select the LDAP server configured with User Alias option.

egdeeptha said...

Saved a lot of time for me. Thanks :)