Kerio Connect
On-premises email, calendaring and contacts for standard clients.
"For organisations needing self-hosted messaging that supports standard mail clients and mobile synchronisation."
Host and manage on-premises email and groupware
Many organisations need reliable email and groupware but prefer to keep data on their own infrastructure. Smaller IT teams and cost-sensitive organisations often lack the resources or appetite to adopt large cloud messaging platforms. Kerio Connect implements SMTP, IMAP and POP and provides calendaring, contacts, tasks, webmail and client synchronisation. It enables organisations to run messaging and collaboration services on-premises or in partner-hosted environments while supporting standard desktop and mobile clients.
Where Kerio Connect is used
Small and medium-sized businesses that want to run email and collaboration services themselves rather than depend on cloud providers. Managed service providers and resellers who need a compact, self-hosted messaging platform to offer to customers with constrained budgets or specific hosting requirements.
Suitable environments
Fits environments that require on‑premises or partner-hosted email and groupware, and where support for standard mail clients and mobile synchronisation is essential.
Benefits
Local data control
Keeps email and collaboration data on-premises under the organisation's control.
Standard client compatibility
Works with common mail clients and mobile devices via established protocols.
Reduced cloud dependency
Removes the need to rely on external cloud messaging platforms for core email services.
Cost-effective
Provides a lower-cost messaging option suitable for organisations with limited budgets.
Straightforward administration
Server management and administration that suits small IT teams and constrained resources.
Reliable message delivery
Uses established protocols to provide consistent mail delivery and retrieval.
Capabilities
SMTP mail delivery
IMAP and POP access
Shared calendaring
Contacts management
Tasks and notes
Webmail access
Client synchronisation
Applications
Host in-house email
Run company email and collaboration services on local infrastructure instead of public cloud.
Team collaboration
Provide shared calendars, contacts and tasks for small teams and departments.
MSP partner offering
Resellers and service providers offer Kerio Connect as a partner-hosted or on-prem service.
Mobile workforce support
Deliver synchronised email, calendars and contacts to mobile devices for remote staff.
Budget-sensitive deployment
Deploy where constrained budgets make larger vendor platforms impractical.
Cross-platform clients
Integrate with common IMAP/POP clients across desktop and mobile operating systems.
