
Avira GmbH Avira AntiVir MailGate 2
1 About this manual ............................................................................................................. 4
1.1 Introduction ...................................................................................................................4
1.2 Structure of the manual .................................................................................................4
1.3 Characters and symbols .................................................................................................5
1.4 Abbreviations .................................................................................................................6
2 Product information......................................................................................................... 7
2.1 Features ..........................................................................................................................8
2.2 Modules and functionality of Avira AntiVir MailGate .................................................9
2.3 Licensing concept ........................................................................................................ 10
2.4 System requirements .................................................................................................. 11
3 Milter mode....................................................................................................................... 13
3.1 Overview ...................................................................................................................... 13
3.2 Functions of Avira AntiVir MailGate (Milter mode) ................................................. 13
3.3 Integration of Avira AntiVir MailGate (Milter mode) in Sendmail .......................... 13
4 Installation ....................................................................................................................... 16
4.1 Preparing installation files ......................................................................................... 17
4.2 Licensing ...................................................................................................................... 17
4.3 Installation with the “install” installation script ....................................................... 18
4.4 Reinstalling or uninstalling Avira AntiVir MailGate ................................................. 21
4.5 Other installation steps depending on the MTA ...................................................... 22
4.6 Testing Avira AntiVir MailGate after installation ..................................................... 27
5 Configuration ................................................................................................................... 28
5.1 Avira AntiVir MailGate-Spool directories .................................................................. 28
5.2 Avira AntiVir MailGate configuration in avmailgate.conf ........................................ 30
5.3 Configuring the spam filter (for Avira MailGate Suite only) .................................... 82
5.4 Scanner configuration in avmailgate-scanner.conf .................................................. 88
5.5 Host configuration in avmailgate.acl ......................................................................... 91
5.6 Configuration of warnings in avmailgate.warn ......................................................... 92
5.7 Configuring report templates ..................................................................................... 92
5.8 Updater configuration in avupdate-mailgate.conf .................................................... 94
6 Operation .......................................................................................................................... 97
6.1 Starting and stopping Avira AntiVir MailGate manually ......................................... 97
6.2 Parameters for the SMTP and Scanner daemon ....................................................... 99
6.3 Queue manager avq .................................................................................................. 100
6.4 Quarantine management ......................................................................................... 102
6.5 Procedures for identifying viruses or unwanted programs .................................... 111
7 Updates ........................................................................................................................... 112
7.1 Internet updates ....................................................................................................... 112
Comentarios a estos manuales