-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 You probably have my thoughts on this memorized by now :)
Anyway, I have been more than well served by Exim (and Postfix) as the MTA, cyrus for IMAP/POP (who uses POP if they have a choice). User accounts can be back ended into LDAP fairly easily, though this is certainly not a requirement. For spam I do a combination of RBLs and Grey-listing in the MTA, which seriously cuts the bandwidth wasted on SPAM. We then have spam assassin and clamav look at the messages before being passed on to cyrus. I really like the cyrus shared folders and some of the other "advanced" features. Whenever I have needed to do something with this setup, I did not have trouble finding relevant documentation via google. Open Exchange involves Tomcat. Depending on who you are, this could make or break the project. For me Java has spent 10 years convincing me that it is a great way to make any machine run like a 486. It has also become synonymous with "temperamental". I also don't like running solutions that I cannot fix (or don't know anyone I trust to fix it), therefor I avoid java based technologies. On a mild tangent, abiword, gnumeric, and KOffice are where I turn to first. Open Office is a last resort, and then only when I have time for a coffee break. Zimbra I would not bother with unless you are willing to spend some money on some of their commercial products. The web based control panel is nice, if a bit cryptic at times. Other than that, it is postfix and cyrus under the hood, which can be handy for troubleshooting. They are also reliable products in their own right. With the impending Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo (and thus Zimbra) however, I would not bank on this solution for the long term. The only other solution I am familiar with is Exchange, and there are very few situations where I recommend this. Even if you have the money, I would rather it go to the various projects that accomplish the same tasks. For calendering, I have been using lightening with the "provider" plugin (stores the events in your google calendar). In this way I can add an event in Thunderbird, and have it appear automatically on my blackberry and as a bonus, my Outlook/Exchange calendar. Hth, Shawn wrote: | I am looking at updating my server in the near future and think it's | time to try out something else for email. Currently I'm running Zimbra | in a VM and it's been more or less decent, except for some odd cases | where it just stopped receiving messages (had to bump the services), and | the fact that my ssl certificate has expired. | | I'm considering the latest version of Zimbra, but wanted to ask the | opinion of the list. | | Here's my needs: | | - Multi domain (but few users / low volume) | - IMAP/POP3 (of course) | - Low maintenance | - Anti-spam / virus (with auto learn and updates) | - Multi-folder capable. (i.e. I want to be able to create sub folders | under the Inbox and direct mail to the appropriate folder) | - Sieve or some kind of server side filtering capabilities (with an easy | interface) | | Calendaring would be a nice to have, but not critical for my needs. | | I've tried Citadel in the past (1+ year ago) and didn't like it (lack of | access to logs when things go wrong). I don't know what the current | incarnation is like. I've tried Kolab and it needed a bit too much | maintenance for my tastes (2.1 days I think it was...). I'm open to | going low level with Postfix/exim/cyrus/courier/spamassasin/etc., but | want a good how-to to follow where I can set things up once and more or | less forget about it. Oh, and I'm looking for it to run on a Ubuntu | server (though that isn't critical). | | My primary focus is low maintenance. I don't want to be wasting lots of | time just to keep the server running and current. Everything else is | more or less typical of a modern mail server, I think.. :) | | So, any recommendations / suggestions? | | Shawn | | (ps, I know this is somewhat of a loaded question... but I'm wearing my | "business manager" hat right now.. not my techie hat...) | | _______________________________________________ | clug-talk mailing list | [email protected] | http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca | Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) | **Please remove these lines when replying -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH2bwBwRXgH3rKGfMRAm9TAJ9fWLCIHaLWojW5rYGwO8mKCnzV0wCggoXR nQJVwYanuGg7fmhq/gHauLA= =/DdN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
