Use the correct distribution for your system and don't mix Unix files with Windows ones because this is one of the most common cause of AfterLogic XMail Server bad behavior.
When you install AXMS package, you've to check that the MailRoot directory contained inside the package itself is complete (look at the directory tree listed below) because some unzippers don't restore empty directories.
AfterLogic XMail Server depends on OpenSSL to provide SSL support, so the development package of OpenSSL (in Debian called libssl-dev) must be installed on your system. For Windows, the AfterLogic XMail Server source already contains a pre-built version of the OpenSSL libraries, include files, and executable. The OpenSSL web site can be found here http://www.openssl.org.
If once you run the AfterLogic XMail Server binaries, Windows complain about missing DLLs, your system is probably missing the Microsoft CRT redistributable package. The mentioned package is available by the following url: www.microsoft.comUnder Linux an init.d startup script is supplied (axms) to allow you to run AfterLogic XMail Server as a standard rc? daemon. You must put it into /etc/init.d (it depends on which distro you're using) directory and then create K??xmail - S??xmail links into the proper directories.
Once you have the service version of AfterLogic XMail Server you can run it in a 'normal' way by executing:AfterLogic XMail Server --debug [options]