Kerio Mail Server and the Great Divide

Hi: I’ve deployed Kerio Mail Server but nowhere near the space that you are considering. Works and runs well on the Mac platform. DNS has to be configured and running of course – and if you want LDAP Services – Open Directory Master. Noticed some installation problems that were sorted within an hour, thats about it. Decent Kerio telephone support also.

This was done with a small user base OSX/XP – 20 or so users. I don’t personally administer this but I do have contact with the administrator and he reports no problems and seems to be very pleased with it.

I will be deploying Kerio in the near future in a much larger organization (50-60 users again mixed platform). This time I think, I will be involved a lot more. I’ll let you know if I find anything useful.

Mike: Good luck to you too.

Hi Mike

Just a follow up. I got around to doing this for a busy architects firm. Approx 30 users, mixed platform. Version of Kerio was 6.4 (latest one available as of this post). Installation went smoothly and everything works well.

There were some issues installing Kerio on OSX Server. Kerio’s own LDAP and secure LDAP Service ports conflict with Apple’s Open Directory. Although not a major problem as you can change port settings within Kerio. Same thing applied for Kerberos. These issues were sorted out but on reflection – in my opinion – it would be best to install Kerio Mail Server on a separate server to the one that is the OD Master and KDC. It may be possible to install Kerio on a client OS? I’ve not seen anything in the documentation that says different. That is as far as my involvement with this installation went. I shall be deploying Kerio again in next 3-6 months. I will probably do things a little differently. I’ll keep you posted.

Tony

I have also deployed Kerio and no issues when I have done it at all. IF you have any questions just let me know..