How to enable anti-spam filtering in AXIGEN using the milter implementation of BitDefender Mail Protection for Enterprises

How to enable anti-spam filtering in AXIGEN using the milter implementation of BitDefender Mail Protection for Enterprises

1. Configuring the BitDefender MPE product

In the installation process of the product make sure to select it to integrate with Sendmail-milter. Then, check the milter socket existance:

netstat -lpn | grep bdmilterd
The command should output a result like the one below:

unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     10827    4600/bdmilterd      /var/run/BitDefender//bdmilterd.sock
In order for Axigen to be able to access the BitDefender milter socket file we will need to run the BitDefender product as the same user as Axigen.
In order to do that please take the following steps:

Stop the bd daemon:
/etc/init.d/bd stop
Open the /etc/init.d/bd file in a text editor and replace the line below:
user=bitdefender
With the following:
user=axigen
This will cause the BitDefender services to run with the same privileges as the Axigen one.

Before we start the BitDefender service we will need to adjust the permissions for the BitDefender files according to the user under which the service will be ran.
Please issue the following two commands:chown -R axigen:axigen /opt/BitDefender
chown -R axigen:axigen /var/run/BitDefender
Start the bd daemon:
/etc/init.d/bd start
Refer to the following Knowledgebase article for instructions regarding the configuration steps required to enable a milter filter type in Axigen:

http://www.axigen.com/kb/show/138

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