User Guide

Kaspersky Anti-Spam Structure and Architecture 17
K ASPERSKY A NTI -S PAM
FILTERING SERVER
Client
Module
Data
Filter profiles and
local lists
Filtering database
Filtering Service
Master process
(ap-process-server)
Filtering process
(ap-mailfilter)
WebTuner
http server
(kas-thttpd)
Configuration scrip
(ap-mft-config.cgi)
Automatic Internet
update of the filtering
database (sfupdates)
Licensing
service
(kas-license)
Key file
List of licensed
mail addresses
MAIL SYSTEM
(MTA)
End users'
mailboxes
INTERNET
Figure 1. Kaspersky Anti-Spam internal architecture