Darren Murphy wrote:
2009/3/13 Stephan M. February <[email protected]>
I've done one Scalix install at the request of a client, and will never
touch it again.
The company I work for switched to a new email platform last year.
Scalix was one of the options we considered, and we actually ran the
evaluation version for a while and were quite impressed.
In the end however, we decided to outsource, and we went with Google Apps.
But I'm curious to know what the issues were that you found with Scalix?
A couple of issues I had with scalix, contrasted against Zimbra:
- The scalix web client sucked worse than Outlook Web Access. OWA is
pretty sucky.
- The scalix server implementation is a disjointed mix of receiving
SMTP via an appserver and sending SMTP via sendmail. The result is a
nightmarish config system for doing complex mail routing rules.
- Administration via the web admin is primitive to say the least. I
consider Zimbra's web admin console to be best of breed and getting better.
- Scalix used to be HP Openmail. It's been around for a long time,
and the cruft shows in so many ways. Backups is another nightmare
scenario in scalix. There is *no* clean way to do backups (at least not
last time I checked). With Zimbra I get a transactional backup system
that allows for per-mailbox point-in-time restores (network edition).
Newer versions of zimbra ship with archiving for compliance purposes.
Cheers
Stephan
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