[Cialug] Mail servers (was: Hostname issue)

[Brian Broughton]

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.
  

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 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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