Kerio MailServer is a messaging and collaboration server that provides powerful protection against viruses and spam, and delivers secure access to e-mail, contacts, tasks and calendars.

A true groupware replacement for Microsoft Exchange, Kerio MailServer is ideally suited for the needs of small and medium sized companies, allowing Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Entourage clients to easily access e-mail messages and collaboration tools.

Kerio MailServer allows mail server administrators to:

•  Choose a less complicated, less expensive alternative to MS Exchange
•  Get robust email protection with integrated anti-spam and antivirus at the gateway
•  Choose their platform of choice--Windows, Mac OS X, SuSE or Red Hat Linux

Features

• Cross-platform Collaboration

Email, Calendar and Contacts – Anytime, Anywhere

Windows savvy

• Manage email and calendars with Microsoft Outlook or Windows Vista’s Mail and Calendar applications

 Kerio WebMail

• Access full groupware features with Internet Explorer, Safari, and Firefox
• Use Kerio WebMail as a full-featured groupware alternative to desktop applications

Mac friendly

• Kerio MailServer is the only Exchange alternative with full and native groupware support for Microsoft Entourage
• Sync natively with Apple iCal through CalDAV
• Manage personal and public contact with Apple Address Book

 Cross-platform interoperability

• Bridge the collaboration gap between Mac, Windows and Linux users with more matching collaboration tools than Exchange 

o   Wireless Mobile Synchronization

Increase field productivity

• Push email, calendars, contacts and tasks to mobile workers. Respond to email and meeting invitations while on the go
• Sync wirelessly with Apple iPhone, Windows Mobile®, Treo Palm, BlackBerry and Symbian devices that use Mail for Exchange or DataViz’s RoadSync client
• Secure business and personal data on your device. Delete email, calendar and contacts remotely with Kerio Smart Wipe in event your phone is lost or stolen  

• Robust email security

Block Unwanted Emails with the Power of an Email Security Appliance Anti-spam protection

• Block up to 98% of spam with over 14 antispam layers
• Directory Harvest Attack protection
• Anti-phishing / anti-spoofing
• Real-time blacklist server
• Custom whitelists and blacklists
• SpamAssassin (Bayes, Heuristic, and SURBL)
• SMTP restrictions and more

Conserve server resources

• Block up to 80% of spam before it even reaches the server. This reduces the amount of emails that needs to be filtered and stored on disk 

Anti-virus protection

• Filter viruses, worms, Trojans and spyware from incoming, outgoing and relayed emails
• Simplify deployment with integrated McAfee engine
• Ready-to-use plugins for other anti-virus engines (ClamAV, AVG, NOD32, Sophos,Symantec, Avast and VisNetic)
•  Combine McAfee with a second anti-virus engine for double the protection 

o   Email Archiving

Archiving for compliance or governance

• Archive local, incoming, outgoing and relayed emails
• View, search and sort through archives for legal discovery or audits 

o   Automated Backup

Easy backup and restoration

• Schedule full or differential backups without having to be present during the backup
• Run backups without having to stop the mail server
• Restore user data and server configurations onto another server
• Recover emptied deleted items for a single user with just a few clicks 

o  Ease of Administration

Just set it and forget it

• Ideal for organizations with little or no IT resources
• Install all components with one installer
• Install in minutes
• Administer all components through one highly intuitive console. Easy to find settings
• Administer remotely through secured channels
• Self-contain services - no dependencies on other services such as SMTP, POP, IMAP, LDAP, and HTTP
• Virtual appliance installation option for faster restoration and deployment