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A.3.1. Main configuration file filter.conf

The configuration file /usr/local/ap-mailfilter3/etc/filter.conf contains that regulate

operation of all Kaspersky Anti-Spam components (excluding the updating

module).

General settings

RootPath – path to the Kaspersky Anti-Spam installation directory. The

default value is /usr/local/ap-mailfilter3.

local7 – a category, according to which records are logged in the syslog

facility. The default value is mail.

LogLevel=0|1|2|3|4|5 – level of detail of records in the syslog facility. The

default value is 2.

User – the rights of this user are used to start filtering server processes. As

a value, you can use either the user name or user uid.

Group – the rights of this group are used to start filtering server processes.

As a value, you can use either the group name or gid.

Filtering server settings

ServerListen – socket using which the filtering server interacts with the

module integrated into the mail server. The format of the value is

tcp:<host>:<port>, where <host> is the IP-address (or name) of the

mail server, <port> is the port number that specifies a network socket,

and the record unix:<path_to_file>, where <path_to_file> is the path

to the socket file, specifies a local socket. Set the <host> parameter to

0.0.0.0 in order to bind the filtering server to any interface.

For compatibility purposes, local socket created for interaction

between mail server and the filtration server allows any user

that has logged on to write to that socket.

FilterPath – path to the executable file of the ap-mailfilter filtering process.

ServerStartFilters – number of ap-mailfilter filtering processes started when

the filtering module is launched. The default value is 0. The

ServerStartFilters value must not exceed the ServerMaxFilters

parameter.

ServerMaxFilters=1...200 – maximum number of simultaneously running

filtering processes ap-mailfilter. The default value is 10.