[Cialug] Mail servers (was: Hostname issue)

[Theron Conrey]

bit late to the show, but this reader is great for giving to people
thinking about running their own mail servers:
https://www.linode.com/docs/email/running-a-mail-server

-theron

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Brian Broughton <Brian at broughtonhome.org>
wrote:

> I have used\tried Zimbra, the open or free version is finicky. I had
> nothing but trouble getting the mail client working on Outlook as
> advertised. First it would work, sync up then fail. But its web mail
> interface worked, worked well. In addition on version 3.4 and 3.5 the samba
> module would constantly crash bring down the domain and associated elements
> such as logging in, shared directories, etc. Think of it as MS domain with
> crashing AD.
>
>  I would argue based on my experience it is not an excellent choice, at
> least the free version as it is cutting edge and buggy. Support is hit or
> miss in the forums, depending on the scope of the problem you can get good
> help to no help.
>
>  Lastly I was running it on a PC that is 6 years old with an early MSI MB
> and a AMD based x64 single core processor and 4 GB of RAM, ran just fine
> with no issues related to the hardware.
>
>
> ----------------------------------------
>  From: "Matt" <matt at itwannabe.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 1:41 PM
> To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Mail servers (was: Hostname issue)
> Zimbra IS excellent from a user perspective and is very easy to set up and
> get running. BUT, he did mention that he wanted something that could run on
> a modest server, which Zimbra certainly is not. Three or so years ago
> Zimbra went from requiring at least 2GB of RAM and some minimum processor
> speed to requiring a 64-bit processor and 4GB of RAM (I think). At that
> point it went from something you could run on a modest server to something
> that is too big for an affordable VM.
>
> Of course, "modest server" and "affordable VM" are things that are
> completely different for a business than they are for a home user who just
> wants to pull all his data out of the clutches of Google.
>
> -- Matt (N0BOX)
>
> > On Nov 25, 2014, at 7:47 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 25 Nov 2014, Josh More wrote:
> >>
> >> I've often thought about ways to detangle myself from Google, simply on
> >> the basis that I rely so much on this one vendor. However, the value
> >> that Google Apps provides is tough to beat. Being able to use email and
> >> a shared calendar on my computer, tablet and phone, as well as a nice
> >> web GUI is great.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions for alternatives? There are hosted Exchange solutions
> >> which> are similar in price and feature,
> > Huh? Do you REALLY want everyone to barf?
> >
> > ownCloud provides all the fancy stuff, .. we use mailserv for core email
> > servers.
> >
> > If you MUST go integrated, Zimbra is excellent.
> >
> > Any decent client (Evolution, for example) can easily provide all the
> > services in one UI, but all are standard so usable separately for
> phones,
> > tablets, at al.
> >
> > Lee
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