We're using Zimbra over here, and hosting over 1000 users and about a dozen companies on it. We had some growing pains with the older versions, but nowadays it's smooth as silk. The big benefit of Zimbra is the really nice web interface, and ability to extend it with 'zimlets' which are applets that do Web 2.0 style mashups. For example, if someone emails you a UPS tracking number, there's a Zimlet that recognizes that regex and turns it into a hyperlink to UPS's tracking site. The LDAP integration is really slick as well. You can have Zimbra be the back-end LDAP database for your organization, or you can have it look up another authoritative database for authentication.
Ronnie Gilkey wrote: > Andrew Baudouin wrote: >> I'd assume it requires RHEL or CentOS... >> >> I know some shops that are sick of paying 67 a seat but don't like >> the required plugins of Scalix or other solutions. MS's 16GB limit >> on public folders on all non-Enterprise Exchange flavors rubs a lot >> of people the wrong way as well. >> >> >> >> On 9/28/07, *Ronnie Gilkey* <ronnie at puryear-it.com >> <mailto:ronnie at puryear-it.com>> wrote: >> >> Andrew Baudouin wrote: >>> First I'd heard of it. Most interesting is its native MAPI >>> support for plugin-less installs. >>> >>> >>> >>> On 9/28/07, *Ronnie Gilkey* < ronnie at puryear-it.com >>> <mailto:ronnie at puryear-it.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Has anyone ever successfully installed this?: >>> >>> http://www.postpath.com/ >>> >>> Ronnie >>> >>> -- >>> Puryear Information Technology, LLC >>> Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 >>> http://www.puryear-it.com <http://www.puryear-it.com> >>> >>> Visit http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/ebooks/ to download >>> your free >>> copies of: >>> >>> "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" >>> "Spam Fighting and Email Security in the 21st Century" >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> General mailing list >>> General at brlug.net <mailto:General at brlug.net> >>> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >>> <http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> General mailing list >>> General at brlug.net <mailto:General at brlug.net> >>> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >>> >> It looks to be very useful, and a pretty good Exchange >> replacement. The problem is their installer fails miserably and >> attempts to run command line programs with options that aren't >> supported. And it's not open source, so it's a PITA to try and >> get working. >> >> Ronnie >> >> -- >> Puryear Information Technology, LLC >> Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 >> http://www.puryear-it.com >> <http://www.puryear-it.com> >> >> Visit http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/ebooks/ to download your free >> copies of: >> >> "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" >> >> "Spam Fighting and Email Security in the 21st Century" >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> General at brlug.net <mailto:General at brlug.net> >> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> General at brlug.net >> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> > Yah, supposedly it can run on RHEL (or the equivalent CentOS), or > OpenSuSE. Right now I'm just checking out Groupware systems. Zimbra > (http://www.zimbra.com) has a very nice open source suite that works > very well and is a quick install as well, I'm partial to it (plus it > provides it's own LDAP server for integration with other applications > / hosts). > > >From my experience Scalix has it's own issues, like being a horrible > kludge of over 275 binaries and continuous system errors. But from > what I hear it's getting better. Plugins are a bad mark in my book as > well -- who wants to maintain the plug-in on all the desktops in your > network? > > What other packages out there are you familiar with? > > Ronnie > -- > Puryear Information Technology, LLC > Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 > http://www.puryear-it.com > > Visit http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/ebooks/ to download your free > copies of: > > "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" > "Spam Fighting and Email Security in the 21st Century" > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
