Tim Fournet wrote:
> 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
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>>>     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.
>>>
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>> 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?
>>
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I've got a virtual machine setup w/ Zimbra in-house.  I really like it's
look and feel / usability.  I'll have to try out some of the zimlets
available.  LDAP is a plus for us, since we use it to with services on
our network.  I'm also glad to hear it performs well with a lot of users
/ under load.

Ronnie

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