Configuration
Avira GmbH
Avira AntiVir MailGate
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Quarantine
Alert
Sending alert emails to quarantine:
(Available only in Milter mode) If
QuarantineAlert
is
YES
and
RejectAlertMail
is
YES
, an email containing an alert will be rejected and the
email will be quarantined.
If
QuarantineAlert
is
NO
and
RejectAlertMail
is
YES
, the email will be
rejected and not quarantined.
QuarantineAlert YES
PollPeriod
Scanning queue
:
Sets the interval, in seconds, for the program to scan the emails queue for viruses
and malware.
PollPeriod 60
Queue
Lifetime
Email lifetime in queue
(not in milter mode):
The maximum time for an email to wait in the queue before rejection.
The value can be given in seconds, minutes, hours or days. For example:
10s, 10m, 10h, 10d.
The zero value deactivates the option.
QueueLifetime 0
Forwarder
RetryDelay
The interval for MailGate to retry forwarding an email (not in milter mode).
The value can be given in seconds, minutes, hours or days (see above).
ForwarderRetryDelay 30m
Throttle
Message
Count
This option is necessary if too many emails are gathered in the queue and MailGate
is restarted (not in milter mode).
In this case, all emails are processed as soon as possible. It can lead to load
problems.
The set number is the maximum number of emails to be processed by
ThrottleDelay
(see the example below).
It is important not to accept any more emails while this option is active. These
would not be processed immediately.
This option should only be used temporarily.
The option
ThrottleDelay
also has to be set.
ThrottleMessageCount 0
Throttle
Delay
This option sets the number of emails (
ThrottleMessageCount
) to be sent in
a time interval, in seconds (not in milter mode). Default: 0, deactivates the option.
ThrottleDelay
0
Example
:
There are 100 emails in the queue.
ThrottleMessageCount
is set to 10 and
ThrottleDelay
to 1. Then a maximum of 10 emails are processed per second.
