User Guide

CHAPTER 4. MANAGING THE
SPAM FILTRATION SERVER
You can use Kaspersky Anti-Spam to protect e-mail traffic from unwanted spam
mail. The system of protection is based on performance of tasks representing the
main features of the application. The tasks performed by Kaspersky
Anti-Spam can be subdivided into three main groups:
• Mail traffic protection against spam.
• Updates of the content filtration databases used for spam detection.
• Monitoring of the anti-spam engine activity.
Each group includes smaller tasks. In this chapter we shall describe in detail the
most typical of them. Administrators can then combine these tasks and enhance
them in accordance with the needs of their specific organizations.
This document describes configuration and task performance locally from the
command line as well as product management using the Control Center.
4.1. Starting and managing
Kaspersky Anti-Spam
components
The main components of the filtration server including the filtering master
process (ap-process-server), licensing module (kas-license) and the SPF
daemon (ap-spfd) are launched at the operating system start-up by a special
script, which is named and located differently in Linux and FreeBSD operating
systems. The Linux operating system uses the kas3 script located in the
/etc/init.d directory while the FreeBSD operating system employs the kas3.sh
script in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory.
The administrator can use the said scripts with the command line parameters
described below to start, stop or restart the main components of the filtration
server:
start – start the main components of the filtration server.
stop – stop operation of the main components of the filtration server.
restart – restart the main components of the filtration server; the action is
identical to running the stop and start actions one after another.