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Fri, 25 Sep 2009 Kerio MailServer 6.7 review

Intuitive mail server software with multi-platform server and client support

Rob Henry

Manufacturer: Kerio
Pros: Flexible Mac server requirements, compatible with broad range of clients (including iPhone and Windows Mobile) integrated McAfee antivirus engine
Cons: Yearly upgrades a little on the expensive side
Price: Server with 10 users: £324 (annual renewal price £97). Additional users (blocks of 5): £13/user (annual renewal price £4/user)
Star rating:

One of the rites of passage faced by any small to medium sized business is that reached when the volume of email you’re managing each day justifies taking the whole operation in-house. Having a local, always-on, server handling the chores that were formerly the preserve of your ISP’s servers makes a lot of sense, but can be daunting, particularly if you don’t have a dedicated IT department and have a multiplicity of client systems, including mobile devices.

Kerio MailServer is intended to address the needs of such users. Indeed, its developer claims it’s “the easiest mail server to set up and deploy for organisations with little or no IT staff”. Suitably challenged, we decided to put Mailserver 6.7 to the test.

We couldn’t find fault with the installation process, setting up Mailserver on a 1GHz G4 tower with 2GB of RAM running Mac OS 10.4.11 that had long been retired from its duties as a primary server. We’d spoken to Kerio about our choice of machine and were told that even the G4 would be overpowered. Full marks, then, for making a product compatible with a wide range of hardware and operating systems, which isn’t often the case these days. Incidentally, we were pleased to see an Uninstall option available in the Installer.

Configuration of Kerio MailServer is via the Administration Console, and the good news for those running a headless server is that this can be run from any local machine running any of the supported operating systems (including Mac OS 10.4 and higher, Windows XP/SP3 and several Linux distros including Red Hat Enterprise 5, SUSE Linux and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS).

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