This document provides detailed setting guidance for all applications and modules (email clients, calendars and address books, data synchronization) supported by Kerio Connect.
While some of these applications are supported directly (i.e. no additional installations are needed, it is only necessary to perform specific settings), others require installation of supportive modules and extensions.
In addition to external applications, this document also addresses the Kerio WebMail interface which is used to access user data and email accounts stored in the mailserver via the most wide-spread web browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari.
This guide addresses features and configuration of the following applications and interfaces:
Kerio WebMail is a comfortable web interface which can be used to maintain email, calendars, contacts and other folders saved in mailboxes on a particular server.
Kerio WebMail is available in two versions:
Kerio WebMail — full version designed for most of supported browsers (see chapter 1 Kerio WebMail).
Kerio WebMail Mini — a special, lite edition designed for unsupported browsers or for computers with slow Internet connection (see chapter 2 Kerio WebMail Mini) and for mobile devices (see chapter 3 Kerio WebMail on mobile devices).
Support for Microsoft Outlook is allowed by two extension modules which enable better exploitation of Kerio Connect's groupware features:
Kerio Outlook Connector (Offline Edition) — is an extension for MS Outlook allowing smoother cooperation of MS Outlook and Kerio Connect. Kerio Outlook Connector (Offline Edition) supports groupware features of MS Outlook such as planning of meetings and task assignment. In addition to these features, other are included such as message grouping, searching in message bodies and offline mode which allows users working with MS Outlook even without Internet connection. This feature is helpful especially for notebook users.
In detail, Kerio Outlook Connector (Offline Edition) is described in chapter 5 Kerio Outlook Connector (Offline Edition).
Kerio Outlook Connector — an extension to MS Outlook. It allows scheduling and sharing different types of data. Thanks to this module, MS Outlook is able to work with groupware data (contacts, calendar, tasks, notices) stored in Kerio Connect. In detail, Kerio Outlook Connector is described in chapter 6 Kerio Outlook Connector.
Windows Calendar is an Microsoft Corporation's application used for management of calendars. Support for Kerio Connect allows publishing of calendars on the server or subscription of any Kerio Connect calendar.
Kerio Connect supports data synchronization with mobile devices via the ActiveSync protocol. ActiveSync allows direct synchronization of data stored in email accounts with mobile devices (it is not necessary to connect to a desktop synchronization application). The ActiveSync protocol can use various applications on mobile devices (ActiveSync in Windows Mobile systems, the VersaMail email client on Palm Treo devices, Mail for Exchange applications on Nokia Eseries and Nseries, the RoadSync application, Apple iPhone 2.0 to 4.0, etc.). Chapter 4 Data synchronization with mobile devices provides detailed information on which folders can be synchronized and how the synchronization should be configured on individual devices.
Microsoft Entourage is an MS Office for Mac email client which also supports management of personal information and groupware functions. The support provided by Kerio Connect is described in detail in chapter 8 MS Entourage support.
Apple Mail is an email client developed by Apple Computer. The support provided by Kerio Connect allows displaying of calendar and contact folders in this client (for details, see chapter 13 Support for Apple Mail).
Apple iCal is an Apple Computer's application used for management of calendars. The support from Kerio Connect works as follows:
Since version Mac OS X 10.5, Apple iCal supports CalDAV which enables subscription and viewing of calendars saved in Kerio Connect. The protocol also supports meeting scheduling (Free/Busy and invitations) and delegating of calendars to other users (for details, refer to section 10.2 CalDAV support).
Kerio Technologies has developed the Kerio Sync Connector for Mac application which allows easy data synchronization between Kerio Connect and Apple iCal. The synchronization with the server allows synchronization of locally created calendars and To Do items (tasks). Details on the product are provided in chapter 12 Kerio Sync Connector for Mac.
Apple iCal calendars can be published in Kerio Connect and it is also possible to subscribe to any Kerio Connect calendar. Calendars are created and saved in the standard iCalendar format (for details, see chapter 10 Apple iCal Support).
Apple Address Book is an application developed by Apple Computer that is used as a standard address book (contact manager) in Mac OS X operating systems. Contacts can be synchronized with the Kerio Connect's store by the methods described below:
Contacts stored in the Apple Address Book and in Kerio Connect can be synchronized by the Kerio Sync Connector for Mac extension. In addition to Apple Address Book contacts, this application can also synchronize Apple iCal calendars and To Do items (for details, see chapter 12 Kerio Sync Connector for Mac).
The address book can be synchronized with contacts stored in Kerio Connect also by using Apple iSync (for details, refer to chapter 11 Apple Address Book Support).
since Mac OS X 10.6, it is possible to use synchronization via the CardDAV protocol (for details, see section 11.2.3 Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard).