Kerio Connect, meets the needs of small and mid-sized businesses while offering a robust feature lineup.
(RRP starts from $626 plus GST for five users)Ĭlick here for more information or contact our sales team for a quote. My client is totally happy, because from their perspective, it’s business as usual but it only cost a quarter of the price of Exchange 2013. So now we have a server which has plenty of resources to run my client’s line of business application database, rather than just email. There aren’t too many products that can say that. The logging facilities within the management console are brilliant & the whole thing does exactly what it says “on the box”. Smartphone setup was a complete breeze & works well. On the PCs, the Kerio Connect client installed without any problems on even the oldest machines (some of which barely ran Outlook) and the web client is superb – a far cry from Outlook Web Access. Importing the email from Exchange to Kerio wasn’t as easy as they would have us believe & we ended up exporting to PSTs and re-importing. Besides, there are plenty of articles on their website to get you out of trouble. Yes, there were a few “gotchas” along the way (mainly to do with Active Directory integration) but no show-stoppers. Kerio Connect offers a complete solution at a fraction of the price.įeedback from a reseller’s real-world experience: I have to say that, all in all, the whole installation was really quite straightforward.
Kerio Connect tests your rules in the order in which they are listed and does not continue processing after a match is found.Exchange was cheap when customers used SBS, but the price is a lot higher now if they want to install on-premise. When excluding a Domain or Sender from an SMTP relay, ensure that the new SMTP relay item is listed above any other SMTP relay item which uses " Always use this relay server". Step 2: Exclude Domain or Sender from SMTP relay Smarthost relays can be configured to use ports 2525, 465 or 587 should 25 be inaccessible to you for any reason. MailChannels supports connections to alternative SMTP ports for Outbound Filtering. See the SMTP delivery tab image above.įixing Common Issues Step 1: Alternate SMTP Ports Click to highlight your new SMTP relay item and using the arrows to the right, move it to the top of the list to ensure your global MailChannels Outbound Filtering rule is evaluated before your default settings. Click the OK button to save your settings and create your MailChannels Outbound Filtering SMTP relay.
Password: Replace with your MailChannels SMTP password created in your outbound console > settings > account > SMTP Passwords > Create User: Replace with your MailChannels SMTP username Relay server requires authentication: Checked Relay server port: 25 (If you are unable to use port 25, we also support 2525, 465 and 587)
This allows your client to use full TLS if desired but does not encrypt everything relayed by default. If checked, uncheck the " Use SSL/TLS if supported by remote SMTP server" option. Select the Relay Control tab and if not set, check the " Allow relay only for:" radial and under this selection, check the box for " Users authenticated through SMTP for outgoing mail".Select Configuration > SMTP to open the main configuration screen.Login to the Kerio Administration interface.If you have reached this setup page and do not yet have valid SMTP credentials, please sign up or contact our Support Team if you need us to recover your existing account information. These values must be altered to use your own SMTP credentials on an active MailChannels Outbound Filtering account. Step 2: Setup an Authenticated Smarthost RelayĪuthentication is required and the SMTP credentials used in this guide are place holders only.
Consult your Kerio Connect system documentation and if not already present, install and configure SMTP according to the software developers recommendations.This guide depends upon the underlying SMTP service being available on your local Kerio Connect System.
Step 1: Ensure SMTP is installed on your host Kerio Connect can be easily and quickly configured to use a high deliverability, anti-abuse relay service such as the MailChannels Outbound Filtering platform.