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Modifying the mailserver.cfg

Author: Vladyslav Velychko Updated

Overview

The mailserver.cfg is an XML file with the UTF-8 coding which contains any other parameters of Kerio Connect, such as configuration parameters of domains, back-ups, antispam filter, antivirus, etc.

There are cases when some settings in this file need to be modified to use the correct system paths.

This article provides the default location of this file on different operating systems as well as the procedure in modifying the settings.

 

 

Information

The default location of the mailserver.cfg file is:

  • Windows: C:\Program Files\Kerio\MailServer
  • Mac: /usr/local/kerio/mailserver
  • Linux: /opt/kerio/mailserver

 

Note: On Mac OS X and Linux systems, files can only be maintained if the user is logged in as the root user.

 

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Process

To modify the settings in the mailserver.cfg: 

  1. Depending on the operating system, navigate to the directory location as mentioned in the information section.

  2. Open the file:

    • For Windows, open the file using a text editor such as notepad.

    • For macOS, open the file using the Nano editor.

    • For Linux, open the file using Nano or Vim editor: nano mailserver.cfg

  3. Find the necessary variable, edit, and save the file.

 

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