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 >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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 >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > 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.
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