Kerio MailServer

Commercial; See text.

Current Version: 6.5.0 Patch 1 (March 20, 2008)

Kerio Technologies Inc. produces Kerio MailServer, an email server designed primarily for small to medium-sized organizations. Its critical components includes integrated ActiveSync support, McAfee anti-virus with dual anti-virus options using built-in third party plugins, multiple anti-spam technologies, cross-platform groupware functionality in Outlook, Entourage, Treos, Windows Mobile Devices and Kerio WebMail. Groupware features include shared and public email, calendars, contacts, notes and tasks. Users can be defined internally or managed through Microsoft Active Directory or Apple Open Directory. A migration tool for Microsoft Exchange is also inlcuded to migrate users and folders to Kerio MailServer. Kerio MailServer runs on Windows, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, and Mac OS X.

Pricing varies, depending upon the desired number of users.

Version 6.5.0 makes a number of improvements, including the following:

• Added support for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
• CalDAV support.
• Support for Entourage 2008
• Upgraded OpenSSL (0.9.8e).
• Upgraded Heimdal (0.8.1).
• Integrated McAfee antivirus use smaller incremental updates.
• New McAfee Scanning Engine 5200.
• New PHP5 library (5.2.5).
• New product icons and graphics.
• SSL version 2 is now disabled by default on all secured connections in favor of SSLv3/TLSv1.
• Added timeout configuration to ClamAV plug-in.
• Added support for eTrust 8.1 anti-virus.
• Fixed possible buffer overflow in Visnetic anti-virus plug-in.
• Fixed file size limits in Sophos anti-virus plug-in.
• Security issue with NULL DACL in AVG plug-in.
• Fixed handling of certain SPF records.
• Fixed possible memory corruption during uudecode decoding.
• "Last message repeated" as first message in a log file.
• Possible KMS crash during closing embedded PHP.
• Possible deadlock in log rotate.
• No error if PHP initialization failed.
• Fixed possible crash in contact folder sorting.
• Fixed random crash of spamserver.exe on system shutdown.
• Remap charset windows-874 to cp874 if windows-874 is missing.
• Add support for Content-Encoding: deflate request.
• Two different timezones with the same name was incorrectly processed.
• List of datetimes in recurrent event with exception was not supported.
• ActiveSync: Fixed possible deadlock in ActiveSync synchronization.
• ActiveSync: Birthday was not synchronized in Mail for Exchange on Nokia.
• ActiveSync: Attachments were duplicated in Mail for Exchange on Nokia.
• ActiveSync: Not all folders were deleted by remote wipe initialized by DirectPush.
• ActiveSync: Too big photos in contact could cause synchronization failure on Palm Treo.
• ActiveSync: Time zone description in events from mobile device was not human readable.
• Public folders shared as anonymous required username and password in HTTP (iCal).
• Events in Arizona/MST timezone are one hour off in Entourage.
• Fixed performance issue with very long SEARCH requests from Entourage.
• Entourage synchronization could cause stability issues on multi-CPU server in rare cases.
• Fixed possible crash if configuration files are invalid.
• SMTP server accepted recipient email without domain.
• Domain footer with national characters was displayed incorrectly.
• Adding footer could corrupt email body in Korean charset "ks_c_5601-1987".
• Deleted users were not removed from license counter.
• TNEF contact send from Outlook was not decoded correctly.
• Footers were not added correctly to messages with inline Content-Disposition.
• Fixed sending emails to external recipients with email address beginning with #.
• Fixed many small bugs.
• Fixed DST change recurrence rule for events created with US/Pacific time zone. (Patch 1)
• All-day calendar events created on Kerio MailServer appeared one day before on ActiveSync phones. (Patch 1)

The release makes many other changes to the Administration Console various modules (Administration Console, WebMail, Web Administration, Synchronization Plug-in, Outlook Connector, etc.) that are more fully detailed in the complete release notes.