Installing Kerio Connect on Debian 8/9

Learn how to install Kerio Connect on Debian 8/9 (amd64).

  1. On Linux Debian 8/9, disable exim4 MTA using the following command: sudo apt-get remove exim4-base.
  2. Install the required system packages using the following command: sudo apt-get install locales-all libsensors4 sysstat.
  3. Download the deb installation package from the Kerio Connect web site and install Kerio Connect using the following command: sudo dpkg -i kerio-connect-9.0.x-xxxx-linux-xxxx.deb .

NOTE

Do not forget to replace x-xxx and xxxx with appropriate version numbers.

  1. Optionally, replace sendmail with the binary from Kerio Connect using the following command: sudo mv /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail-old sudo cp /opt/kerio/mailserver/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail sudo cp /opt/kerio/mailserver/lib* /lib/
  1. Open Kerio Connect Administration using https://servername:4040/admin.

Kerio Connect users can authenticate against PAM with the /etc/pam.d/kerio-connect PAM module.

Starting and stopping the server

  • To start Kerio Connect: sudo service kerio-connect start
  • To stop Kerio Connect: sudo service kerio-connect stop