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I'd agree with this. We started off with the open source and switched to the commercial, and then became a reseller/partner we liked it so much. As a cross-platform shop we loved how it 'just worked' on every platform. The Evolution connector isn't the best yet, but at least in the works and appears to be close. There are a couple minor things that do bug me though, like not being able to mark events as Private in the calendar. But overall though I love it and easy to manage.<BR>
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On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 22:17 -0500, Richard Harms wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Memories of PMDF addressing syntax and VMS scare me.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I've been considering switching our workplace to Zimbra from Exchange </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">2003 for quite a while now. I finally setup the open source edition </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">on a Mac mini I picked up a few weeks ago and have been seriously </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">impressed by it. The setup time was literally < 10 minutes. I'm using </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">it for another domain name I have at home, and have dumped a few </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">large mailing lists into it - my mailbox right now has around 20K </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">messages, and the speed is very impressive (syncing local client via </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">IMAP, and searching using their web interface - OWA though a non-IE </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">browser looks like a joke compared to the functionality that Zimbra </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">gives you). I've tried it with OS X's Mail as an IMAP client, and </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Thunderbird, and its worked flawlessly. Their desktop client, even </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">though very beta, works OK from Windows.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">As soon as they release 5.0 later this fall, I'm planning on trying </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">our their professional edition (in order to get Outlook and iSync </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">support), and if all goes well, we'll be moving around 60 users to it </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">from Exchange, probably in January. If we can eliminate everyone's </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">perceived need for Outlook, it'll be one significant step closer to a </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">non-MS desktop for a large portion of our desktop systems.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Having dealt with Unix (sendmail, postfix, etc.), Novell (GroupWise) </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">and Windows (Exchange) based systems for a long time now, Zimbra is </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the first time I've felt completely comfortable trusting my email to </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">a commercial solution. I've spent some time looking around behind the </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">scenes, and to see familiar pieces like postfix, MySQL, Java, Lucene, </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">OpenLDAP, mail messages stored in simple, plain text files, really </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">makes me feel good that if worse came to worse, I can get my mail out </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">of the system intact.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">-rh</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Aug 31, 2007, at 9:19 AM, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Due to the recent retirement of the only person who fully understands</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> the baroque e-mail system we have here at Drake[*], something better</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> needs to be built. Naturally, due to the ease of integration and </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> better</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> support i'd prefer an open source solution running on Linux. So i've</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> started researching what is available. Any suggestions on projects i</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> should look at? So far i want to test eGroupWare and Zimbra.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> The official requirements are an "integrated system covering e-mail,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> campus calendar, address books/contacts and cell phone/PDA downloads".</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Why they want all those unrelated things in one monolithic product, i</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> don't know. But there it is. I expect whatever we go with will also</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> have to have some form of commercial support plan available as well.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> [*] For those of you familiar with Drake, yes we're still running PMDF</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> on VMS on an old Alpha.</FONT>
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