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you need to configure the task running the update script manually, perform the
following steps:
1.
Use the following command to edit the
cron
task file for the
mailflt3
user:
# crontab –u mailflt3 –e
2.
Add to the task file, for example, the following line:
*/20 * * * * /usr/local/ap-mailfilter3/bin/ \
sfupdates -q
Before you configure automatic launch of updates, make sure that the
mailflt3
user has sufficient privileges to write to the following directories:
/usr/local/ap-
mailfilter3/cfdata
and
/usr/local/ap-mailfilter3/conf.
4.5. Configuring the spam filtration
server
Pages of the
Settings
section contain the settings for the components of the
spam filtering server. You can switch between the pages using the links in the
Anti-Spam Engine
menu:
•
Common – general parameters of the filtration server.
•
Process Server – parameters used by the
ap-process-server
filtration
master process during operation.
•
Filtration Process – parameters used by the
ap-mailfilter
filtering
processes during operation.
•
Check Options – spam recognition parameters.
•
MTA Clients – parameters of client plug-in modules.
•
Reject Messages – texts of notifications returned to message senders in
case, when a message is rejected.
Parameters of the filtration server components can also be specified manually by
editing the
filter.conf
configuration file. Please refer to Appendix A.3.1 on
page 100 for a detailed description of the
filter.conf
configuration file.