Configuring Anti-Spam engine settings

To configure the Anti-Spam engine settings:

1. In the main window of the application web interface, open the management console tree and select the Settings section and Protection subsection.
2. In the Anti-Spam section, click any of the Use KSN, Use enforced Anti-Spam Updates Service, Use reputation filtering or Maximum scanning time links to open the Anti-Spam settings window.
3. In the External services settings group, select one of the following options in the drop-down list Use KSN:
   • Yes, if you want to use KSN.
   • No, if you do not want to use KSN.
4. In the External services settings group, select one of the following options in the drop-down list Use enforced Anti-Spam Updates Service:
   • Yes, if you want to use enforced Anti-Spam Updates Service.
   • No, if you do not want to use enforced Anti-Spam Updates Service.
5. In the External services settings group, select one of the following options in the drop-down list Use reputation filtering:
   • Yes, if you want to use reputation filtering.
   • No, if you do not want to use reputation filtering.
6. In the Performance settings group, in the Maximum scanning time field specify the maximum Anti-Spam scan time in seconds.

   If Anti-Spam scanning of a message does not finish within the time limit you specified, Kaspersky Secure Mail Gateway:

   • Stops scanning the message (Skip action).
   • Assigns Error (Scan error) status to the message.
   • Adds the as-status="Error" label to the message subject.
   • Delivers the message to the recipient.
   • Adds the following entry to the /var/log/maillog event log:

     <scan time and date> <Kaspersky Secure Mail Gateway hostname>: not clean: message-id=<message ID>: relay-ip=<IP address of the computer of the message recipient>: action="Skipped": rules=<rule ID>: size=<message size>: mail-from=<email address of the message sender>: rcpt-to=<email address of the message sender>: av-status="Clean", ap-status="Error", as-status="Error", ma-status="NotScanned, disabled by settings", cf-status="NotScanned, disabled by settings">

7. Click the Apply button.