Kerio Connect is the successor of the successful Kerio MailServer application. Kerio Connect is a modern multiplatform mailserver which supports variety of communication protocols.
These protocols allow using of any email clients including those which are supported by mobile devices. The mailserver also allows direct access to mailboxes via a proprietary web interface.
Kerio Connect uses mailboxes to store various data types. Besides email messages, calendars, notes, contacts and tasks are kept in mailboxes. Calendars and tasks offer also task and meeting planning. These features make Kerio Connect a complex groupware enterprise solution.

Connect Everyone:
· Share email, calendar and contacts, and schedule meetings on any platform. Bring Mac, Windows, Linux and smartphone users together. Use Kerio Global Address List (GAL) to provide an organisation-wide directory of employees.
Connect Anywhere and Anytime:
· Centralise your data into one location. Access your work in the office, on the road or at home.
· With distributed domain, you can schedule meetings, use your global address book, and easily manage and communicate with remote branch offices. Organisations with offices and Kerio Connect servers in multiple geographic locations can enjoy the benefit of a single and unified collaboration system.
Flexible Client Options:
· Microsoft Outlook Microsoft Entourage Apple iCal, Apple Mail, Apple Address Book Kerio WebMail Mobile devices
Work Anywhere:
· Connect and do more while you are on the road. Reschedule a meeting when your flight has been delayed or send an email to your team members all at once.
· Kerio Connect gives you the freedom to work where you are and to use the smartphone of your choice.
Sync Anything:
· Simply syncs with direct push email. Sync email, calendar and contacts automatically with your mobile device. Great real-time changes on your phone, on your computer or on the web.
· Easily manage a custom view for public and shared folders by selecting which folders you want synced with your mobile device.
· Kerio Connect connects directly to Exchange ActiveSync enabled devices over the air.
Protect Data:
· Protect your data when you phone is lost or stolen. Delete confidential information from your device over the air, through Kerio Smart Wipe.
Protect your time and assets:
· Secure your Inbox from excessive spam management or malicious attacks.
Get the power of an appliance:
· Kerio Connect comes with the strongest anti-spam and anti-virus protection built into a mail server.
Integrated for greater protection:
· Block spam and viruses more efficiently from incoming, outgoing, and relayed email messages and attachments.
Anti-spam protection:
· Over 14 anti-spam layers
· DHA (Directory Harvest Attack protection)
· SpamAssassin (Bayes, Heuristic, and SURBL)
· Anti-phishing / anti-spoofing
· RBL (Real-time blacklist servers)
· Custom whitelists and blacklists
· SMTP restrictions and more…
· Reduce server resource consumption
· Block up to 80% of spam before it even reaches the server. Save hard drive space, RAM and CPU usage.
Anti-virus protection:
· Integrated Sophos
· Turn on the integrated Sophos anti-virus protection for
Instant protection:
· Advanced scanning technology
· Easy maintenance
· Updates as often as every hour
· Third-party anti-virus plug-ins
· Use your existing anti-virus system with Kerio Connect easily through Kerio’s built-in anti-virus plug-ins.
Dual anti-virus ready:
· Combine Sophos with a second anti-virus engine for double the anti-virus protection.
Archiving for compliance and governance:
· Save incoming, outgoing and relayed messages for both local and external mail. Integrate easily with third-party archiving solutions and non-rewriteable media for legal compliance. Use Kerio WebMail, an IMAP client or athird party legal discovery tool for auditing.
· To store data for backup and recovery, learn about Kerio Connect's integrated backup.
Retention Policy:
· Conserve space and prevent excessive storage of old information by automatically deleting old email items.
· Flexible retention policy options allow administrators to configure mail retention policies per individual domain, or per user. Select which folders to include in the policy and set the age of items to be deleted in days or years.
Schedule unattended backups:
· Backup the server without having to stop the server. Receive email notifications for backup interruptions or completion.
Restore backup onto another server:
· Restore user data and server configurations onto a new installation in event of hardware failure.
· Integrate with third-party high availability solutions for maximum uptime.
Retrieve emptied deleted items:
· Recover a single emptied deleted email for an individual with just a few clicks.

Requirements:
· Minimal HW configuration (1-20 users):
· CPU 1GHz
· 512 MB RAM
· 40GB of free space for message store and backup
· Recommended HW configuration (20-100 users):
· CPU 2GHz
· 2GB RAM
· 160GB of free space for message store and backup
· Recommended HW configuration (100+ users):
· CPU 2.8GHz Dual Core
· 4 GB RAM
· 200GB+ of free space for message store and backup

Limitations:
· 30-day trial

What's New in This Release:
Kerio Connect:
· Out of office reply could be sent to some DSN reports.
· Fixed stability issue when shutting down anti-virus plug-in.
· Fixed synchronization of some attachments to mobile devices.
· Fixed some performance problems.
Kerio Connect Administration:
· Added detection of users running Kerio Outlook Connector without Kerio Updater Service installed.
Kerio Outlook Connector (Offline Edition):
· Picture in email signature was displayed as an attachment.
· Attachment in TIFF format was displayed with incorrect file extension.
· Some HTML formatted attachments were not synchronized to the client.
· Special quote characters were removed from the message sent from Outlook.
· Fixed a problem with folder sharing of default Outlook folders.
Kerio Connector for BlackBerry:
· Some email folders were not synchronized with BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0.3.