Kerio Connect 7.4

Administrator's Guide

Kerio Technologies


This guide provides detailed description on Kerio Connect, version 7.4. All additional modifications and updates reserved.

For current version of the product and related manuals, check http://www.kerio.com/connect/download/.

Information regarding registered trademarks and trademarks are provided in the appendix A  Legal Notices.


Table of Contents

1  Introduction
1.1  Additional documentation
1.2  Quick Checklist
2  Installation
2.1  System requirements
2.2  Conflicting software
2.3  Firewall configuration
2.4  Installation
2.4.1  Microsoft Windows
2.4.2  Linux — RPM
2.4.3  Linux — DEB
2.4.4  Mac OS X
2.4.5  VMware Virtual Appliance
2.5  Configuration Wizard
2.6  Upgrade and Uninstallation
3  Kerio Connect components
3.1  Kerio Connect Monitor
3.2  Standalone processes of the server
4  Kerio Connect administration
4.1  Kerio Connect administration interface
5  Product Registration and Licensing
5.1  Product registration at the website
5.2  Registration with the administration interface
5.3  License information and import of the license key
5.4  Licensing policy
6  Services
6.1  Service Parameter Settings
6.2  Troubleshooting
7  Domain and its settings
7.1  Initial settings
7.2  Domain definition
7.2.1  Primary Domain
7.3  Footer settings
7.4  Restoring deleted items
7.5  Automated items clean-out
7.6  Domain alias
7.7  Authentication of domain users
7.8  Rename Domain
7.9  Deleting domains
7.10  A company with multiple sites
7.11  Setting up the backup mail server
8  User accounts
8.1  Administrator account
8.2  Creating a user account
8.3  Editing User Account
8.4  Editing multiple users
8.5  Removing user accounts
8.6  Search
8.7  Statistics
8.8  Administration of mobile devices
8.9  Import Users
8.10  Exporting domain users to CSV files
8.11  User Account Templates
9  User groups
9.1  Creating a User Group
9.2  Exporting group members
10  Mapping users from directory services
10.1  Active Directory
10.1.1  Setting mapping in the administration interface
10.1.2  Kerio Active Directory Extension
10.2  Apple Open Directory
10.2.1  Setting mapping in the administration interface
10.2.2  Kerio Open Directory Extension
11  Distributed domain
11.1  Recommendations
11.2  Distributed domain setting
11.3  Disconnecting server from distributed domain
11.4  User accounts in distributed domains
11.5  Migration of user mailboxes in distributed domains
12  Sending and Receiving Mail
12.1  Mail Delivery over the Internet
12.2  SMTP server
12.3  Aliases
12.4  remote POP3 mailboxes
12.5  Receiving Email Using ETRN Command
12.6  Internet Connection
12.7  Scheduling
12.8  Advanced Options
13  Antispam control of the SMTP server
13.1  Spam Rating tab
13.2  Blacklists tab
13.3  Custom Rules
13.4  SpamAssassin
13.5  Email policy records check
13.6  Spam repellent
13.7  Recommended configuration of antispam tests
13.8  Monitoring of spam filter's functionality and efficiency
14  Antivirus Control of Email And Attachment Filtering
14.1  Integrated Sophos Anti-Virus
14.2  Choosing an external module for an antivirus program
14.3  Configuration of external antivirus modules
14.4  Server responses to detection of a virus or a damaged/encrypted attachment
14.5  Filtering Email Attachments
14.6  Antivirus control statistics
15  Email archiving and backup
15.1  Archiving
15.2  Back-up of user mailboxes and basic server configuration
15.3  Data recovery from back-up
16  Server's Certificates
16.1  Kerio Connect certificate
16.2  Install certificates on client stations
17  Kerio WebMail customization
17.1  Skins
17.2  Logo
17.2.1  Setting the global logo
17.2.2  Domain logo customization
17.3  Language
17.4  Keeping sessions between Kerio Connect and Kerio WebMail secure
17.4.1  Setting session protection
18  Limits and quotas
18.1  Message size limits
18.1.1  Setting limit for messages delivered via SMTP
18.1.2  Setting limit for messages sent by a particular user
18.1.3  Setting limit for messages sent from a domain
18.1.4  Size limit for Kerio WebMail
19  Tools
19.1  IP Address Groups
19.2  User Access Policies
19.3  Time Ranges
19.4  Administration Settings
19.4.1  Administration Account
19.4.2  Setting Remote Administration
20  LDAP server
20.1  LDAP server configuration
20.2  Global Address (Contact) List
20.3  Configuring Email Clients
21  Mailing Lists
21.1  User Classification
21.2  Creating a Mailing List
21.3  Posting rules
21.4  Moderators and Members
21.5  Mailing list archiving
21.6  Server Reports
21.7  How to use Mailing Lists
22  Resource scheduling
22.1  Resource scheduling principle
22.2  Creating resources
23  Status Information
23.1  Message Queue
23.2  Message queue processing
23.3  Active Connections
23.4  Opened Folders
23.5  Traffic Charts
23.6  Statistics
24  Logs
24.1  Log settings
24.2  Config
24.3  Mail
24.4  Security
24.5  Warning
24.6  Operations
24.7  Error
24.8  Spam
24.9  Debug log
24.10  Performance Monitor (under Windows)
25  Folder Administration
25.1  Public folders
25.1.1  Global versus Domain folders
25.1.2  Creating public folders
25.1.3  Assigning rights for public folders
25.2  Viewing public folders in individual account types
26  Kerberos Authentication
26.1  Kerio Connect on Windows
26.2  Kerio Connect on Linux
26.3  Kerio Connect on Mac OS X
26.4  Starting Open Directory and Kerberos settings
27  NTLM authentication settings
27.1  Setting NTLM in MS Outlook extended by the Kerio Outlook Connector
28  Kerio Connect Environment
28.1  Configuring Email Clients
28.2  Web browsers
28.3  Firewall
29  Deployment Examples
29.1  Persistent Internet Connection
29.2  Dial-up Line + Domain Mailbox
29.3  Dial-up Line + ETRN
30  Troubleshooting in Kerio Connect
30.1  Reindexing mail folders
30.2  Moving configuration and data to another computer
31  Kerio Outlook Connector
31.1  Kerio Outlook Connector (Offline Edition)
31.1.1  Manual installation on a user's workstation
31.1.2  User profile creator — automatic installation and configuration of user profiles
31.1.3  Installation for 64-bit version of MS Outlook 2010
31.1.4  Notes regarding installation and upgrade on the terminal server
31.1.5  Automatic updates
31.1.6  The Online/Offline mode
31.2  Kerio Outlook Connector
31.2.1  Installation and configuration without the migration tool
31.2.2  Upgrade of the Kerio Outlook Connector
32  Support for Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011
32.1  Setting by using the autoconfig tool
32.2  Manual Configuration of Microsoft Outlook for Mac
33  Support for iCalendar
33.1  Web calendars in MS Outlook 2007
33.2  Windows Calendar
33.3  Apple iCal
34  CalDAV support
34.1  Configuration of CalDAV accounts
34.2  CalDAV account in Apple iCal
34.2.1  Automatic configuration of CalDAV accounts
35  CardDAV support
35.1  Automatic configuration of CardDAV accounts
35.2  Manual configuration of CardDAV accounts
36  Support for ActiveSync
36.1  Synchronization methods
36.2  Supported versions of ActiveSync and mobile devices
36.3  RoadSync
36.4  SSL encryption
36.5  Remote deletion of the device data (Wipe)
36.6  Removing a device from the administration of mobile devices
36.7  Synchronization logs
36.8  Troubleshooting
37  Support for BlackBerry devices
37.1  NotifySync
37.2  AstraSync
38  Kerio Connector for BlackBerry
38.1  System requirements
38.2  Installation
38.2.1  Installation on two separate computers
38.2.2  Installation on a single computer
39  MS Entourage support
39.1  Automatic configuration of Exchange accounts
40  Apple Address Book Support
41  Kerio Sync Connector for Mac
41.1  Installation
41.2  Synchronization troubleshooting
42  Support for Apple Mail
43  Apple iPhone Support
43.1  Apple iPhone OS 2.0 and higher
44  Technical support
44.1  Kerio Connect administration
A  Legal Notices
B  Used open source software