User Guide

Kaspersky Anti-Virus® for Sendmail with Milter API

1.1. What’s new in version 5.6

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.6 for Sendmail with Milter API has these additional

features, compared to version 5.0:

• Simple processing rules for e-mails can be grouped, depending upon the

message’s senders and recipients, to provide complex processing.

• Additional options have been added for processing messages containing

suspicious objects

• Additional statistics are recorded for all messages processed by the

application.

• The SNMP protocol can be used to get read-only access to application

configuration and statistic data; the application can be configured to send

SNMP-traps when specific events occur.

1.2. Hardware and software system

requirements

For smooth operation of Kaspersky Anti-Virus, your mail server must meet the

following hardware and software requirements:

Minimum hardware requirements

for application operation:

• Intel Pentium 133 MHz processor or higher

• 32 MB RAM

• 100 MB available space on your hard drive (this amount does not include

space necessary for storing backup message copies).

Minimum hardware requirements

for a mail server with about 800 MB of traffic

per day

(250-300 mail accounts (addresses)):

• Celeron (Mendocino) 400 MHz processor

• 512 MB RAM

The following scheme is used to calculate daily traffic: average message size is 60 KB,

during 10-hour period, with 25 scan processes working in parallel, about 13200 messages

are processed, which totals to 800 MB.