Sunday, February 5, 2017

Fortinet Email Service with gmail setup

Fortinet Email Service with gmail setup


If you tried to setup Fortianalyzer sending alert via gmail but kept fail

p/s  if you tried setup with 3th party apps for send notification via gmail, this guide might suit too.

Current my analyzer running 5.2.9

Herewith the steps

1. Setup on Fortianalyzer mail server setup
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for information about gmail setting
https://support.google.com/a/answer/176600?hl=en


2. SSH to Fortianalyzer , configure the secure option, this command make sure using starttls.

3. Login into your gmail account

4. Access the url https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps , turn it on



You can skip steps 5 and 6 if you 1st time setup gmail smtp server, else continue

5. Access the url https://accounts.google.com/DisplayUnlockCaptcha, click continue


6. You will come to this page below




7. You should successfully send the email