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Officialy Kerio Mailserver isn’t supported to run on Ubuntu Server, however since the release of Version 6.7 they have downloadable .deb packages for Debian/Ubuntu. Using this tutorial you can create your own .deb package of the downloadable .rpm package and install Kerio on you Ubuntu Server:

# install kerio dependencies libstdc++5
apt-get install libstdc++5

# Install the created kerio_xxx-i386.deb. If you have trouble installing the .deb file with “dpkg -i filename.deb” try “dpkg –unpack filename.deb”.
dpkg -i kerio_xxx-i386.deb

# Start kerio configuration script and set your preferences.
cd /opt/kerio/mailserver
./cfgwizard

Now it is time to set proper init script see attached file. Download the file and paste it in /etc/init.d/. The file should be called keriomailserver. so Vi /etc/init.d/keriomailserver should give you this script.

#Set Kerio to start at bootup in rc.d. Do not forget the last dot!
update-rc.d keriomailserver start 99 2 3 4 5 . stop 20 0 1 6 .

Done! Do a reboot and see Kerio mailserver nicely start at bootup.