Kerio MailServer 6.7

Administrator's Guide

Kerio Technologies


This guide provides detailed description on Kerio MailServer, version 6.7 (updated version). All additional modifications and updates reserved.

For current versions of the product and related manuals, check http://www.kerio.com/mailserver/.

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


Table of Contents

1  Introduction
1.1  New Features and Enhancements
1.2  Additional documentation
1.3  Quick Checklist
2  Installation
2.1  System requirements
2.2  Conflicting software
2.3  Firewall configuration
2.4  Installation
2.5  Configuration Wizard
2.6  Upgrade and Uninstallation
3  Product Registration and Licensing
3.1  Product registration at the website
3.2  Registration with the administration console
3.3  License information and import of the license key
3.4  Licensing policy
4  Kerio MailServer Components
4.1  Kerio MailServer Monitor
4.2  Standalone processes of the server
5  Kerio MailServer Administration
5.1  Download and installation of Kerio Administration Console
5.2  Localizations of the Kerio Administration Console
5.3  Administration Window
5.4  View Settings
6  Services
6.1  Service Parameter Settings
6.2  Important Notes
6.3  Troubleshooting
7  Domain and its settings
7.1  Initial settings
7.2  Definition of Domains
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  Deleting of domains
7.9  A company with multiple sites
7.10  Setting up the backup mail server
8  Users
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  User Account Templates
9  User groups
9.1  Creating a User Group
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  Internet Connection
11.1  Internet Connection
11.2  Sending High Priority Messages
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  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 McAfee Anti-Virus
14.2  Choosing an external module for an antivirus program
14.3  Examples of 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 MailServer 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 MailServer 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  Time Ranges
19.3  Setting Remote Administration
20  Scheduling
20.1  Setting Up the Scheduler
20.2  Optimal Scheduling
21  LDAP server
21.1  LDAP server configuration
21.2  Global Address (Contact) List
21.3  Configuring Email Clients
22  Mailing lists
22.1  User Classification
22.2  Creating a Mailing List
22.3  Posting rules
22.4  Moderators and Members
22.5  Mailing list archiving
22.6  Server Reports
22.7  How to use Mailing Lists
23  Resource scheduling
23.1  Resource scheduling principle
23.2  Creating resources
24  Status Information
24.1  Messages in queue
24.2  Message queue processing
24.3  Active Connections
24.4  Opened Folders
24.5  Traffic Charts
24.6  Statistics
25  Logs
25.1  Log settings
25.2  Config
25.3  Mail
25.4  Security
25.5  Warning
25.6  Operations
25.7  Error
25.8  Spam
25.9  Debug log
25.10  Performance Monitor (under Windows)
26  Folder Administration
26.1  Public folders
26.1.1  Global versus Domain folders
26.1.2  Creating public folders
26.1.3  Assigning rights for public folders
26.2  Viewing public folders in individual account types
27  Kerberos Authentication
27.1  Kerio MailServer on Windows
27.2  Kerio MailServer on Linux
27.3  Kerio MailServer on Mac OS X
27.4  Starting Open Directory and Kerberos settings
28  NTLM authentication settings
28.1  Setting NTLM in MS Outlook extended by the Kerio Outlook Connector
29  Kerio MailServer Environment
29.1  Configuring Email Clients
29.2  Web browsers
29.3  Firewall
30  Deployment Examples
30.1  Persistent Internet Connection
30.2  Dial-up Line + Domain Mailbox
30.3  Dial-up Line + ETRN
31  Troubleshooting in Kerio MailServer
31.1  Reindexing mail folders
31.2  Moving configuration and data to another computer
32  KMS Web Administration
32.1  Web browsers
32.2  Setting access rights to the web interface
32.3  Settings allowing web administration
32.4  Users logged in
33  Kerio Outlook Connector
33.1  Kerio Outlook Connector (Offline Edition)
33.1.1  Manual installation on a user's workstation
33.1.2  User profile creator — automatic installation and configuration of user profiles
33.1.3  Notes regarding installation and upgrade on the terminal server
33.1.4  Automatic updates
33.1.5  The Online/Offline mode
33.2  Kerio Outlook Connector
33.2.1  Installation and configuration without the migration tool
33.2.2  Installation and profile creation using the migration tool
33.2.3  Upgrade of the Kerio Outlook Connector
34  Support for iCalendar
34.1  Web calendars in MS Outlook 2007
34.2  Windows Calendar
34.3  Apple iCal
35  CalDAV support
35.1  Configuration of CalDAV accounts
35.2  CalDAV account in Apple iCal
35.2.1  Automatic configuration of CalDAV 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  NotifyLink
37.2  AstraSync
37.3  NotifySync
38  MS Entourage support
38.1  Automatic configuration of Exchange accounts
39  Apple Address Book Support
40  Kerio Sync Connector for Mac
40.1  Installation
40.2  Synchronization troubleshooting
41  Support for Apple Mail
42  Apple iPhone Support
42.1  Apple iPhone OS 1.0
42.1.1  Email
42.1.2  Synchronization of events and contacts
42.2  Apple iPhone OS 2.0
42.3  Apple iPhone OS 3.0
43  Technical support
A  Legal Notices
B  Used open-source libraries
Glossary of terms
Index