Kerio Mail Server, Now Kerio Connect, supports CardDav!
December 1, 2009 – 11:36 amHowie Issacks, a noted Kerio MailServer Expert, has written a new blog post about the up-coming Kerio Connect…
Beta 3 of Kerio Connect 7 (renamed from Kerio Mail Server) from Kerio Technologies, Inc. now supports CardDav. Snow Leopard users can now rejoice that fully native contacts synching is on the way.
When Apple’s Snow Leopard released on August 28th, Kerio Mail Server was not fully compatible with Snow Leopard. I have always enthusiastically upgraded to the latest version of Mac OS X on the date of the release, so when I found out that KMS was not going to support Snow Leopard, that was a major drawback. Although email was unaffected, Kerio Mail Server was not compatible with the new version of iCal in Snow Leopard. Anyone who upgraded to Snow Leopard found out afterward that their Kerio hosted calendar was read only in iCal, and could not be managed in iCal. Users would need to either modify their calendar from webmail, or use another device such as their iPhone. Kerio followed up with an update (6.7.2) less than a month later. The update fixed the incompatibility with iCal. With Snow Leopard, Apple added CardDav into Address Book. Along with CardDav, Apple also added an updated native Exchange synching feature in Address Book. This broke the ability for Address Book to synch with Kerio Mail Server through ‘Exchange’ synching. End users would need to use the Kerio Sync Connector instead, which is a separate add-on that needs to be installed, and later, manually updated each time that there is a Kerio Mail Server update. Kerio Sync Connector will synchronize the user’s contacts and calendars with the Kerio server automatically. Calendar synching can also be handled through CalDav instead of using the Kerio Sync Connector.
