I'm still getting settled in with Zimbra. For general users, I believe you can dummy Zimbra down, but then you have the extra functionality for internal use or for up-selling to business clients.You can easily implement a multi-server solution for redundancy and load sharing. My current implementation has 7 (virtual) servers and I can easily add more as demand requires. It also has one of the best webmail interfaces I've seen.
http://www.zimbra.com/learn/customer-list.html They have a wide range of customers, including Comcast which has 17M+ customers. Many WISPs treat email as a disease, but I fully embrace it and consider it to be a linchpin in attracting and maintaining valuable customers. As far as APIs go, they do have a provisioning command line utility http://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Bulk_Provisioning. They also have a SOAP API in their source code (ZimbraServer/docs/soap.txt). http://zimbra.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/zimbra/trunk/ZimbraServer/docs/soap.txt?revision=843&view=markup <http://zimbra.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/zimbra/trunk/ZimbraServer/docs/soap.txt?revision=843&view=markup> http://zimbra.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/zimbra/trunk/ZimbraServer/docs/soap-admin.txt?view=markup ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com On 1/9/2012 7:18 AM, Paolo Di Francesco wrote: > why Zimbra? > > The reason why I Asked is that it looks more like an enterprise > environment more than an ISP product (I hope I expressed the concept) > > The point is that maybe it's too difficult to use for an average user > who only wants to download the emails. > > Question: does it have any API to be "controlled" by external softwares? > > Comments are welcome! > > >> I am moving all of my boxes to Zimbra. >> >> ----- >> Mike Hammett >> Intelligent Computing Solutions >> http://www.ics-il.com >> >> >> >> On 1/8/2012 11:18 AM, Paolo Di Francesco wrote: >>> Dear All >>> >>> I am wondering what you are using to give email boxes to customers. >>> >>> In particular: >>> >>> 1) POP3/IMAP/SMTP, etc >>> 2) spam/virus filtering >>> 3) APIs so that it's possible to automate the processes (e.g. email box >>> creation) >>> 4) web interface >>> >>> Any suggestion is welcome >>> >>> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
