Kerio MailServer provides support for Apple iPhone 1.0 mobile devices. This support allows to receive and send email and synchronize calendars and contacts:
Email can be send and received via standard email protocols or synchronized with desktop applications (Apple Mail and Outlook Express) via Apple iTunes.
Contacts and calendar can be synchronized with desktop applications via Apple iTunes. Calendar and contacts can be synchronized with applications Apple iCal, Apple Address Book and Microsoft Outlook (XP, 2003 and 2007).
Safari supports both full version of Kerio WebMail and Kerio WebMail Mini.
To enable Apple iPhone support in Kerio MailServer, installation of iTunes 7.3 or higher on user stations is required. iTunes is used for synchronization of desktop clients with Apple iPhone.
Synchronization between desktop applications and Apple iPhone requires the following operating systems:
Windows XP Service Pack 2 and later
Mac OS X 10.4.10 and later.
Safari inbuilt in Apple iPhone supports connection to the Kerio WebMail interface. It is possible to connect either to the full version or to the Mini version of Kerio WebMail. For smooth use, it is recommended to follow these instructions:
Full version of Kerio WebMail is recommended, especially when connection to the Internet is performed via Wi-Fi. The full version allows working with notes, calendar and tasks. These items are not available in Kerio WebMail Mini.
In full version of Kerio WebMail, it is possible to create or remove contacts, events, tasks and notes, but existing items cannot be edited.
Kerio WebMail Mini is recommended especially when connecting to the Internet via EDGE. It provides faster connection to the mailbox and simplified environment where neither zoom or scrolling is needed. On the other hand, Kerio WebMail Mini allows to work only with email folders, contacts and folders (folder management).
On Apple iPhone, email accounts can be set either manually or it is possible to use the automatic configuration:
If you read mail in Apple Mail on Mac OS X or in Outlook Express on Windows, email messages will be automatically and without any settings synchronized over Apple iTunes.
Apple iPhone also allows standard email account settings as know for example from MS Outlook or Apple Mail. This implies that when the account is set up, email will not be synchronized with the email client and Apple iPhone will connect directly with the mailserver (over Wi-Fi or EDGE). To set the account, follow these instructions:
Go to the Settings menu and select Mail.
Select Add Account.
In the next dialog, click on Other.
The account settings dialog includes three account types — IMAP, POP and EXCHANGE. Any of them can be used for connection to Kerio MailServer. However, it is recommended to choose IMAP (default) or EXCHANGE. POP accounts work like this: the protocol downloads all email in Apple iPhone and the email in no longer available on the server. Therefore, if we connect to the account by another email client (e.g. by MS Entourage), the messages already downloaded in Apple iPhone will not be there.
Once an account type is selected, specify your full name, email address and account description (the description is useful especially when you will use more accounts on the same device).
Set configuration for incoming email:
Host Name — internet name or
IP
address of Kerio MailServer (example:
mail.company.com
or 212.45.62.2
). If you
do not know your server's name, contact your administrator.
User Name — username which you use for
connection to the server (example: dbeckham
).
Password — user password used for authentication at the server.
Set configuration for outgoing email:
Host Name — internet name or
IP
address of Kerio MailServer (example:
mail.company.com
or 212.45.62.2
). If you
do not know your server's name, contact your administrator.
User Name — user name used for connection to the server (this item is optional, your network administrator will inform you whether it is necessary to specify it or not).
Password — user password used for authentication at the server (this item is optional, your network administrator will inform you whether it is necessary to specify it or not).
Click
to save your account settings.Now it is necessary to set correct folder mapping:
Reopen account settings and select Advanced (scroll down to the end of the account).
Change mapping for these items: Drafts Mailbox → Drafts, Sent Mailbox → Sent Items and Deleted Mailbox → Deleted Items.
Direct synchronization of Apple iPhone with Kerio MailServer is not supported. Calendars and contacts can be synchronized only over the desktop application Apple iTunes version 7.3 and higher:
Events can be synchronized with the following applications:
Apple iCal — all calendars can be synchronized.
MS Outlook — only the default calendar's events can be synchronized.
Windows Calendar — iTunes do not support this synchronization.
Contacts can be synchronized with the following applications:
Apple Address Book — all items of contacts can be synchronized.
MS Outlook — all significant items are synchronized; only one contact folder is synchronized; synchronization of distribution lists is not supported.
Windows Contacts — all contact items are synchronized; distribution lists are synchronized as so called group.
This section addresses both Apple iPhone 3G and Apple iPhone 1.0 with the OS X 2.0 firmware.
In additions to all options available also for OS X 1.0, Apple iPhone with OS X 2.0 supports the ActiveSync protocol for direct data synchronization. This implies that now Kerio MailServer in cooperation with Apple iPhone 2.0 provides the following options:
Apple iPhone allows synchronization of:
email,
calendar,
contacts.
Apple iPhone fully supports so called “Device Wipe”, the device clean-up feature. In short, the device can be cleared (deletion of all data and settings) remotely in case that it gets lost or stolen.
If you happen to lose your Apple iPhone or it gets stolen, contact your network administrator immediately to get the device wiped remotely.
DirectPush Technology — this technology allows mobile devices to keep open HTTP(S) connection with the server. Whenever a new item is received or any change is performed in any folder, changes are synchronized immediately.
Global Address Lookup — this feature allows look-up of email addressed in contact folders.
To configure ActiveSync (Exchange), follow these guidelines:
In Apple iPhone, go to .
Select Add Account.
Select the Microsoft Exchange account type.
Enter the following account data:
Enter the primary email address consisting of username
and domain (e.g. jflyhigh@company.com
, where jflyhigh is
a username and company.com is an email domain).
Enter DNS name of Kerio MailServer.
Enter username for login to your Kerio MailServer mailbox.
Enter password for your mailbox.
This is an optional entry. The description is helpful especially if you intend to use multiple accounts.
This option allows encryption of any traffic between the server and the device. It is highly recommended to keep the option enabled to protect your connections from debugging and misuse.
To enable traffic encryption, it is necessary that an SSL certificate is installed in Kerio MailServer. To get the certificate, go to the Kerio WebMail login page in Safari (see section 1.2 Authentication to Kerio WebMail) and click on Download SSL certificate.
In the dialog opened, select which folder types will be synchronized. Uncheck only items you would really not use.
Once the settings are saved, the Mail days to sync item appears — open it and set how old items will be involved in synchronization. This measure helps avoid that the synchronization takes too long and that too much needless data is downloaded.
At the end, set how often the synchronization will be performed. This can be done in Advanced tab, you can also find setting of synchronization type for your Exchange account.
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