Seven servers (yes, I know they are VMs), as awesome as Zimbra may be, is a little ridiculous for a few hundred users.
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Mike Hammett <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a few hundred mailboxes. > > I don't really have much for user support issues. I've had to revoke > accounts a couple times from users that kept handing out their password > like it was candy at a parade. No real forgotten password problems. Setup > just works. Hack attempts are shut down before they even try valid > credentials. > > I'm running a seven server Zimbra cluster. Whenever I can get a little bit > of time, it'll be geo and network diverse (separate cluster for all but > mailboxes elsewhere with the mailboxes coming in about a year). It will be > up to about 14 servers by then. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > > Midwest Internet Exchange > http://www.midwest-ix.com > > <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Lewis Bergman" <[email protected]> > *To: *[email protected] > *Sent: *Thursday, November 5, 2015 8:29:00 AM > > *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Roundcube > > How many thousands of users do you have? Running the service is pretty > cheap. I built my own sendmail+Dovecot system which was really cheap. Then > I got to a place where I didn't want my time tied up with that so we went > to Magicmail which was still pretty cheap. Through all of it it was the > support that was the big dollar sign. If you set expectations differently > maybe yours would be cheaper. All I know is I spent a lot of user tech > support time on it. More than anything else by far. Kind of a hidden > expense but definitely still there. We had, I think, 8000 users on the > system when we sold. Maybe a couple hundred domains. > > On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 8:11 AM Mike Hammett <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What are people doing that's so expensive? I could have 10x - 50x the >> number of mailboxes as I have and it wouldn't cost me any more than it does >> now, other than some disks.... which aren't expensive. >> >> I guess I would probably move from the community version to the service >> provider version, but at that point that's under $0.20/mailbox/month. Not >> really a major expense. >> >> >> >> >> ----- >> Mike Hammett >> Intelligent Computing Solutions >> http://www.ics-il.com >> >> <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> >> <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> >> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> >> <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> >> >> Midwest Internet Exchange >> http://www.midwest-ix.com >> >> <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> >> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> >> <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> >> ------------------------------ >> *From: *"Lewis Bergman" <[email protected]> >> *To: *[email protected] >> *Sent: *Thursday, November 5, 2015 8:08:29 AM >> >> *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Roundcube >> >> For me it wasn't about difficulty it was about expense. Email, at least >> how we did it, was a cost center not a profit center. I kept it until I >> sold and wish I would have ditched it much sooner. It was by far the >> biggest tech support PITA. >> >> I did learn afterward that the longer someone has an email address the >> more they are willing to pay to keep it. I have been raising he fee we >> charge to use those old emails. I am now at $250 a year for a single email >> and I have people begging me not to cut it off. I am still going to, but I >> think it is interesting since I used to give it away. >> >> I guess what I am saying is that if you do not charge a decent amount for >> it, why do it? The there is the whole minimum volume to be profitable thing >> that comes into play. I just would not keep doing something that doesn't >> make money. If it does, more power to you. >> >> On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 7:18 AM Mike Hammett <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> There seems to be two camps. One where people are running away form >>> their own e-mail servers and then those that embrace it. I haven't found >>> e-mail to be that difficult to manage. >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- >>> Mike Hammett >>> Intelligent Computing Solutions >>> http://www.ics-il.com >>> >>> <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> >>> <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> >>> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> >>> <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> >>> >>> Midwest Internet Exchange >>> http://www.midwest-ix.com >>> >>> <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> >>> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> >>> <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> >>> ------------------------------ >>> *From: *"Chuck Hogg" <[email protected]> >>> *To: *[email protected] >>> *Sent: *Thursday, November 5, 2015 6:01:35 AM >>> *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Roundcube >>> >>> >>> I hope you are charging handsomely for email. We just quit it for our >>> customer base...and only had 2-3 complaints. Everyone already has an email >>> address. >>> >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> Chuck >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Eric Kuhnke <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Any tips of tricks for success with using Roundcube to provide webmail >>>> to individual end users (not a single domain corporate environment)? >>>> >>>> Server side is postfix + spamassassin + dovecot. >>>> >>>> I have a successful 'test' setup of roundcube running in a VM doing >>>> TLSv1.2 on smtp and imap, logged into several user accounts on test domains >>>> on the dovecot server. >>>> >>>> Wondering if anyone has run into hiccups or weird things when using >>>> roundcube in a production environment. >>>> >>>> >>> >
