38.1  Automatic configuration of Exchange accounts

Kerio Technologies have developed an autoconfig script for MS Entourage. This script sets email accounts and prepares them so that, after running it, users only fill in their username, password and email domain where their account is created.

The configuration script first sets the account so that it communicates only with SSL-encrypted versions of protocols. For this reason, the utility needs a valid SSL certificate. It therefore downloads the active SSL certificate from Kerio MailServer. To make the certificate work properly, it must be issued against the DNS name of the Kerio MailServer host. Otherwise, the account is set so that the certificate is not required and unsecured protocols will be used.

Warning

If the script has already been used and MS Entourage 2008 reports that the traffic would not be secure because it is not possible to communicate via SSL, please restart MS Entourage. Upon the restart, the application should work correctly in the secure mode.

To get the autoconfig script, go to the Integration with Mac OS X page. For this purpose, use this URL: http(s)://server/integration.

These settings are focused in the Kerio MailServer 6, User's Guide.