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title: 'Filter Settings'
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markdown: 'https://docs.danami.com/warden/settings/contentfilter/filter-settings.md'
date: '2026-09-24'
description: 'General Settings Max servers - max_servers The number of pre-forked children created by Amavis. Raising this will speed up how fast Amavis processes emails at the cost of using more memory. A setting of 1-2 is recommended for low volume servers, 3-5 for medium volume servers, and 6-8 for high volum…'
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[](#)  [ Basics ](https://docs.danami.com/warden/)     [ Settings ](https://docs.danami.com/warden/settings)     [ Content Filter ](https://docs.danami.com/warden/settings/contentfilter)      Filter Settings    

# Filter Settings

## General Settings

**Max servers** - `max_servers`
The number of pre-forked children created by Amavis. Raising this will speed up how fast Amavis processes emails at the cost of using more memory. A setting of 1-2 is recommended for low volume servers, 3-5 for medium volume servers, and 6-8 for high volume servers. Note that each child process will typically use 250-300MB of memory.
Default: 3

**Max requests** - `max_requests`
The number of requests for an amavis child process before it is retired.
Default: 20

**My hostname** - `myhostname`
The hostname of the server. This must be a fully qualified domain name.
Default: host.example.com

**My domain** - `mydomain`
The domain name of the server. This should be set to the domain name only (not the hostname). This is used by Amavis in various places like in the X-Virus-Scanned header.
Default: example.com

**My networks** - `mynetworks`
An IP access list which determines if the original SMTP client IP address belongs to our internal networks, i.e. mail is coming from inside. It is much like the Postfix parameter "mynetworks" in semantics and similar in syntax, and its value should normally match the Postfix counterpart.
Default: 127.0.0.0/8 \[::1\] \[FE80::\]/10 \[FEC0::\]/10 10.0.0.0/8 172.16.0.0/12 192.168.0.0/16

## Log Settings

**Log level** - `log_level`
The Amavis debugging log level.
Default: 0

**Log template** - `log_templ`
The log template used by amavis. Use simple for busy servers or verbose if you want to log more information including matched rule scores.
Default: $log\_short\_templ

**Use syslog** - `DO_SYSLOG`
Enable logging to syslog and the mail log instead of logging to a separate amavisd log file. Extremely busy servers might want to uncheck this so that amavis will log to a seperate log file.
Default: 1

**Log file** - `LOGFILE`
The log file to log to when use syslog is disabled.
Default: /var/log/amavisd.log

**SpamAssassin debug** - `sa_debug`
A comma seperated list of SpamAssassin plugins to debug. Use "all" to debug all plugins.
Default: info

## MTA Interface

**Localhost name** - `localhost_name`
The EHLO name used to identify the domain name of the sending host to SMTP.
Default: your hostname

**Inet ACL** - `inet_acl`
Allow SMTP access only from these networks.
Default: 127.0.0.1 \[::1\]

## Final Destinies

**Final spam destiny** - `final_spam_destiny`
The action should be taken when an spam message is found.
Default: D\_REJECT when the amavisd-milter is installed and D\_DISCARD when amavisd-milter is not installed.

**Final virus destiny** - `final_virus_destiny`
The action should be taken when an virus message is found.
Default: D\_REJECT when the amavisd-milter is installed and D\_DISCARD when amavisd-milter is not installed.

**Final banned file destiny** - `final_banned_destiny`
The action should be taken when a message with a banned attachment is found.
Default: D\_REJECT

**Final bad header destiny** - `final_bad_header_destiny`
The action should be taken when a message with bad mail header is found.
Default: D\_REJECT

**Final unchecked destiny** - `final_unchecked_destiny`
The final action that should be taken when a message cannot be scanned by the anti-virus scanner.
Default: D\_REJECT

## Related Pages

- [Policy Banks](https://docs.danami.com/warden/settings/contentfilter/policy-banks "Policy Banks")
- [Scanner Settings](https://docs.danami.com/warden/settings/contentfilter/scanner-settings "Scanner Settings")
- [Milter Settings](https://docs.danami.com/warden/settings/contentfilter/milter-settings "Milter Settings")
- [Policy Settings](https://docs.danami.com/warden/settings/contentfilter/policy-settings "Policy Settings")
- [Policy Migrator](https://docs.danami.com/warden/settings/contentfilter/policy-migrator "Policy Migrator")

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## Navigation

- Parent: [Contentfilter](https://docs.danami.com/warden/settings/contentfilter.md)
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