Product Comparison

Kerio MailServer 6.5

Kerio MailServer 6 vs Microsoft Exchange

Product Kerio MailServer Microsoft Exchange

Version 6.5 2003 2007 Product Reviews
Mobile Email
Over-the-air synchronization of "… a very complete product with
Email, Calendar, Contacts and Groupware functionality and
Tasks: good Outlook support ... a serious
Windows Mobile® • • • Exchange competitor."
Treo Palm • • • Network Computing
Symbian • • • September 26, 2007
BlackBerry • • •
“Kerio MailServer is a very
Direct Push • • • attractive Exchange-alternative for
Respond to meeting invitations • • • small to medium organizations.
Remote Wipe • • • It provides comprehensive client
support complimented with email
Remote wipe for Windows Mobile® • – –
security, backup and archiving.”
OS older than version 5.0
LANline
Sync Calendar and Contacts with Apple iPhone • – – August 2007
Web Mail
“Support for multiple platform
Contacts • • •
and clients and easy to configure.
Personal Distribution Lists • • • Good Exchange alternative
Calendar • • • for small to medium sized
companies.”
Free/busy service • • •
Rated: 5/6
Real-time reminders • • • Computerworld
Notes and Tasks • • • July 6, 2007
Shared folders • • •
“Kerio MailServer is rich in
Public folders • • – features and advantages when
Trainable spellchecker • – – compared to Exchange.”
Spam/Not Spam buttons • – – Automatisering Gids
April 2007
Multi-lingual • • •
Drag and drop capability • • • "Kerio MailServer represents a
Out of office setting • • • serious alternative to Microsoft
Exchange." Kerio MailServer
Voice mail integration – – • scored 92, while Microsoft
Full web mail version in Firefox • – – Exchange scored 91.
Full web mail version in Safari • – – PC Magazine
April, 2007
Microsoft Outlook Groupware
Shared email folders • • • Industry Awards
Free/busy service • • •
Real-time reminders • • •
Journal, Notes and Tasks • • •
Offline mode • • •
Microsoft Entourage Groupware
Contact synchronization • • •
Free / busy service • • •
Shared folders • • •
CalDAV Client Support
Two-way sync with Apple iCal • – –
CalDAV client access and scheduling • – –
Product Kerio MailServer Microsoft Exchange Why buy
Version 6.5 2003 2007 Kerio MailServer?
Anti-spam
Relay protection • • • Stronger security
Kerio MailServer’s anti-spam
Anti-spoofing • • • protection is just as robust as an
Bayes and heuristic filtering • • • appliance, saving you from having
SURBL blocking • – – to purchase additional anti-spam
protection.
Public blacklist support • • •
Custom blacklist • • • Less complicated
Custom whitelist • • • You may need to use at least 7
different consoles to administer
Directory Harvest protection • • •
and configure a Microsoft
SMTP greeting delay • • • Exchange infrastructure. With
Anti-virus Kerio MailServer there is only one
highly-intuitive administration
Integrated anti-virus engine McAfee® – –
console to handle it all.
Built-in anti-virus plugin Symantec Virus scanning API Virus scanning API
Sophos Less IT overhead
Computer Associates eTrust Administering Exchange can be a
Grisoft AVG full time job. Kerio MailServer can
Alwil Software Avast! be installed and ready to go in less
Eset Software NOD32 than 30 minutes. Organizations
VisNetic Antivirus with little or no IT staff can just set
ClamAV it and forget it.
Dual anti-virus scanning • – –
Problems solved faster
Server-side attachment filter • – •
Kerio MailServer has multiple
Server Administration releases each year to address
Integrated email archiving • – – issues, feature requests and add
Integrated store backup • – – new improvements. Average
releases for Exchange take more
Remote web console • – – than a year.
Remote Administration console Mac/Windows/Linux Windows Windows
Virtual Appliance • – • More cost effective
Get the collabortion features that
User Authentication your organization need without
Internal database • – – paying for the high upfront cost,
Apple Open Directory • – – administration costs, and necessary
third party add-ons.
Linux PAM • – –
Microsoft Active Directory • • •
Message Handling
Multiple domains • • •
List server / Mailing list • • •
headquarters
Remote POP3 download • SBS only –
Aliases • • • Kerio Technologies Inc.
San Jose, CA, USA
Quotas • • • Phone: +1 (408) 496–4500
Message size restrictions • • • www.kerio.com
Operating System Support
regional offices
Windows Windows Windows Server Windows Server
2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista 2000 / 2003 2000 x64 / 2003 Kerio Technologies UK Ltd.
(server version optional) x64 Cambridge, United Kingdom
Linux Red Hat / Fedora / SuSE – – Phone: +44 1223 202 130
www.kerio.co.uk
Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4, 10.5 – –
Minimum Licensing Costs Kerio Technologies s. r. o.
50 users $1299* $3714 $5418 Plzeň, Czech Republic
Phone: +420 377 338 901
100 users $2299* $7064 $8098 www.kerio.cz
* Prices are subject to change.

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Published 1/2008