[emanation]

it's standard, I have not changed it. Now it contains (commented lines are excluded)

[Definition]
loglevel = 3
logtarget = SYSLOG
socket = /var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.sock

Also there are jail.conf file. I also removed all commented lines.

[DEFAULT]
ignoreip = 127.0.0.1
bantime  = 600
findtime  = 600
maxretry = 3
backend = auto

[ssh-iptables]
enabled  = true
filter   = sshd
action   = iptables[name=SSH, port=ssh, protocol=tcp]
           sendmail-whois[name=SSH, dest=root, sender=fail2ban@mail.com]
logpath  = /var/log/secure
maxretry = 5

[proftpd-iptables]
enabled  = false
filter   = proftpd
action   = iptables[name=ProFTPD, port=ftp, protocol=tcp]
           sendmail-whois[name=ProFTPD, dest=you@mail.com]
logpath  = /var/log/proftpd/proftpd.log
maxretry = 6

[sasl-iptables]
enabled  = false
filter   = sasl
backend  = polling
action   = iptables[name=sasl, port=smtp, protocol=tcp]
           sendmail-whois[name=sasl, dest=you@mail.com]
logpath  = /var/log/mail.log

[ssh-tcpwrapper]
enabled     = false
filter      = sshd
action      = hostsdeny
              sendmail-whois[name=SSH, dest=you@mail.com]
ignoreregex = for myuser from
logpath     = /var/log/sshd.log

[apache-tcpwrapper]
enabled  = false
filter   = apache-auth
action   = hostsdeny
logpath  = /var/log/apache*/*error.log
           /home/www/myhomepage/error.log
maxretry = 6

[postfix-tcpwrapper]
enabled  = false
filter   = postfix
action   = hostsdeny[file=/not/a/standard/path/hosts.deny]
           sendmail[name=Postfix, dest=you@mail.com]
logpath  = /var/log/postfix.log
bantime  = 300

[vsftpd-notification]
enabled  = false
filter   = vsftpd
action   = sendmail-whois[name=VSFTPD, dest=you@mail.com]
logpath  = /var/log/vsftpd.log
maxretry = 5
bantime  = 1800

[vsftpd-iptables]
enabled  = false
filter   = vsftpd
action   = iptables[name=VSFTPD, port=ftp, protocol=tcp]
           sendmail-whois[name=VSFTPD, dest=you@mail.com]
logpath  = /var/log/vsftpd.log
maxretry = 5
bantime  = 1800

[apache-badbots]
enabled  = false
filter   = apache-badbots
action   = iptables-multiport[name=BadBots, port="http,https"]
           sendmail-buffered[name=BadBots, lines=5, dest=you@mail.com]
logpath  = /var/www/*/logs/access_log
bantime  = 172800
maxretry = 1

[apache-shorewall]
enabled  = false
filter   = apache-noscript
action   = shorewall
           sendmail[name=Postfix, dest=you@mail.com]
logpath  = /var/log/apache2/error_log

[php-url-fopen]
enabled = false
port    = http,https
filter  = php-url-fopen
logpath = /var/www/*/logs/access_log
maxretry = 1

[lighttpd-fastcgi]
enabled = false
port    = http,https
filter  = lighttpd-fastcgi
logpath = /var/log/lighttpd/error.log
maxretry = 2

[ssh-ipfw]
enabled  = false
filter   = sshd
action   = ipfw[localhost=192.168.0.1]
           sendmail-whois[name="SSH,IPFW", dest=you@mail.com]
logpath  = /var/log/auth.log
ignoreip = 168.192.0.1

[named-refused-udp]
enabled  = false
filter   = named-refused
action   = iptables-multiport[name=Named, port="domain,953", protocol=udp]
           sendmail-whois[name=Named, dest=you@mail.com]
logpath  = /var/log/named/security.log
ignoreip = 168.192.0.1

[named-refused-tcp]
enabled  = false
filter   = named-refused
action   = iptables-multiport[name=Named, port="domain,953", protocol=tcp]
           sendmail-whois[name=Named, dest=you@mail.com]
logpath  = /var/log/named/security.log
ignoreip = 168.192.0.1