User Guide

CHAPTER 7. UNINSTALLING
THE APPLICATION
To uninstall Kaspersky SMTP-Gateway from server, you must be a privileged
(root) user. If you are currently logged under a user account with lesser
privileges, log on as root.
The uninstallation process will automatically stop the application!
When you are uninstalling the product, the application will be stopped, and all
files and directories created during installation will be deleted. However, files and
directories created or modified by the administrator, such as the application
configuration file, notification templates, the quarantine directories, archives of
received and sent messages, anti-virus databases, license key file, will remain.
There are several different ways to run the uninstall procedure, depending on the
package manager you used. Below is a detailed description of these options.
If you installed the application from the rpm package, type the
following in the command line to uninstall Kaspersky SMTP-Gateway:
# rpm -e <package_name>
If you installed the application from the deb package, type the following
in the command line to uninstall Kaspersky SMTP-Gateway:
# dpkg -P <package_name>
If you installed the application from the universal package (tar.gz), type
the following in the command line to uninstall Kaspersky SMTP-
Gateway:
# /opt/kav/5.5/smtpgw/setup/uninstall.pl
If you installed the application from the pkg package, type the following
in the command line to uninstall Kaspersky SMTP-Gateway:
# pkg_delete <package_name>
After the application has been successfully removed from your server, you will
see a corresponding message on your screen.