Kerio leverages the OWA aspect of Entourage so if you open up OWA on the firewall then Entourage will be able to work over port 80 (or 443).
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Kerio: ActiveSync
Windows Mobile and Microsoft Exchange. Windows Mobile still gives users an extremely feature rich environment for messaging without the whole licensing thing you often run into with Blackberry Enterprise Server. But what if it’s either too much (in terms of costs) or too much (in terms of management)? Well, Kerio doesn’t have all the features, but it is a viable alternative. And a user friendly one at that.
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Entourage Migrations
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal For years, we’ve had issues with the fact that there is no good built-in auto-archive feature for Entourage. This has led to many an Exchange environment getting out of control with a lot of Mac clients. To get around this issue, check out Entourage Email Archive X 3.4.0. It’s a utility for archiving emails and/or attachments for Entourage in Mac OS X. EEAX 3.x works on OS X 10.4.x (Tiger) with Microsoft Entourage 2004. You can Download latest EEAX 3.4.0 from: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14011 If you need an evaluation copy drop an email to: info@softhing.com.
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Kerio: Spam Options
Kerio has a variety of features available for mitigating the evil spam gremlins. These include: 1 – SpamAssassin – Open Source spam filter 2 – Directory Harvest Attack Protection – track email coming in for non-existent users and limit the number allowed per host 3 – Policies – tag emails with X-Spam headers, then use local policies, etc. Also write custom filters that identify certain keywords as spam 4 – RBL – A standard with mail servers, Realtime BlackList servers mark common spammers or hosts that do not meet a minimum criteria for being acceptable mail servers 5 – SPF – Rely on srv reccords from domains to specify what IPs…
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318 Kerio Article
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Article about 318 on Apple.com, focusing on a project we did integrating Kerio to replace Microsoft Exchange, giving our client the ability to centralize all of their server assets into an Open Directory environment while still using MAPI to provide groupware components to their user base, have handheld devices that sync with their Calendar/Mail/Contacts and of course, use the standard Exchange features of mail, etc. Good stuff: http://consultants.apple.com/at_a_glance/318inc/
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Entourage 2004 and Exchange 2003
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Microsoft Entourage interacts with Microsoft Exchange differently than a typical Microsoft Office client. There are some fundamental concerns that an organization should have when using Entourage with Exchange. One difference that is important to point out early in the process is the fact that Microsoft Entourage can cause Exchange database files to become bloated with streaming information in the *.stm files that is not otherwise needed. There are 3 ways to combat this when/if it occurs: 1) Run a eseutil command while the database is stopped to defrag the database. When using eseutil you will need a minimum amount of freespace available that is…
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Email Privacy
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Ever get an email from yourself that you didn’t send? Ever get spam from someone that you can’t reply to? Using the settings of an email program, it is possible to pretend to be anyone that you would like. If you want to send email from bill.gates@microsoft.com then that is entirely possible. Finding the address of who actually sent email is easy, but ensuring the identity of the sender is not part of standard email. This is where the protocols for PGP, Pretty Good Privacy, and GPG, or GNU Privacy Guard, come into play. GPG and PGP are Open Source suites of applications allowing…
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Using a + in an email address
If you take an email address like my iCloud account, it’s krypted@me.com. If I take the username and add a + at the end I can then type some characters and put it all in front of the @ and domain name then the mail will still come to me. So, let’s say I use it to create an AppleID for an APNS certificate. That would be: krypted+apns@mac.com Or iTunes: krypted+itunes@mac.com Or iPhone1 (or these days iPad1): krypted+ipad1@mac.com The only gotcha is that occasionally you’ll run into some field on a webpage that has input validation for non alpha-numeric characters. Shouldn’t be the case, but it comes up from time…