[Cialug] E-mail system suggestions

[Daniel Wittenberg]

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.

Dan

On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 22:17 -0500, Richard Harms wrote:

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