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That's like saying "vi is easy to use", or "flying a jumbo jet is easy", or "editing the Windows registry is easy to do". |
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Nor do the fees for Zimbra go up overtime. Whatever you are quoted when you first purchase it, is the price you pay each renewal (ie, it's a constant cost). And they now offer a perpetual license, where you pay once, and never have to pay again (unless you need more licenses, but then you still only pay whatever you paid the first time). The per-license cost does not increase after you purchase Zimbra. If you don't buy Zimbra this year, or the next, but buy it sometime down the road, then the cost will most likely have increased. But once you buy it, your cost is locked in. |
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Same with OpenXchange, Scalix, and Merak Icewarp. Their web interfaces are just ugly, overly busy, and hard to use. At least compared to Zimbra 5. Maybe if we had started our testing with Scalix and the rest, we would have thought they were nice, but after first testing Zimbra for two months, with all its AJAXy goodness, the rest just don't compare. Plus, they just don't have the same connectivity options that Zimbra has (LDAP, IMAP, CalDAV, WebDAV, iCal, POP, SMTP, LMTP, Evolution Connector, Outlook Connector, SyncML, ActiveSync, BlackBerry Connector, etc). You can even use Kontact to access everything except your personal addressbook. The only thing stopping us from going with Zimbra is the uncertainty over the whole "MS trying to buy Yahoo!" issue. Although their new perpetual license option does mitigate that risk a lot. |
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Phoenix, are you the person on Zimbra forums with the no longer testing zimbra in your member description. (As the location and intials are the same, I figure you probably are.) With errm, 64 posts to date, I think.
We're wondering about that too--at present, I have it installed but haven't done much with it save set up a few accounts with names like test1 test2. |
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I will look into the above suites as well. You never know.
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We had a trial install of Zimbre NE for about 4 months, and just loved it. About halfway through the test, Yahoo! bought them. And as I was writing up the final recommendation for the higher-ups to go with it, MS offered to buy them. We've been testing other products (nothing really matches their functionality or openness) in the interim. We were just about to purchase 1600 licenses after MS walked away ... and then that idiot decided to try a proxy battle. So now we're in limbo again. Looking at the alternatives, though, we're still seriously considering them. We're weighing the pros/cons of the perpetual license vs. regular license against our 5-year plan. |
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Y'know, I'm glad you wrote that, I thought I was just being silly being confused by that. The first time I saw it, I thought, Cool, Phoenix is here, then realized it wasn't you. Then, today I noticed the other sig and thought aha.
I haven't posted anything on there yet, I've just thrown it on a box my boss gave me to play with last Thursday. It seems as if it might be good for us. On the other hand, we think my boss was interviewing someone today, so.... although we think it's because someone else might have gotten on his bad side, one never knows.... |
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Since we're on that subject Phoenix, Can I use Zimbra on an intranet? I had pretty much ruled it out because I figured you needed to be doing external mail but if I don't need to do that I might consider it.
I am Twincactus on the zimbra forums I knew you were on there but I had forgotten until I posted here. Thanks for the backup. I actually thought you worked for Zimbra. -Tim |
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from the postfixadmin config file Code:
$CONF['database_type'] = 'mysqli'; $CONF['database_host'] = 'ip-address of remote server'; $CONF['database_user'] = 'username'; $CONF['database_password'] = 'passwd'; $CONF['database_name'] = 'postfix'; $CONF['database_prefix'] = ''; hamba |
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So then I'll need MySQL installed on the mail server?
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yup, you can use mysql to manage your users and domains. Postfix works very well with mysql.
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Wondering if Qmail is ancient now.
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I heard that Ironport http://www.ironport.com/ , which acquired by Cisco now is using FreeBSD and their solution for e-mail is very excellent. Does anybody know which MTA that they're using?
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no you don't. when you configure the
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# cat main.cf ... virtual_mailbox_domains = proxy:mysql:/usr/local/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_domains_maps.cf ... # cat mysql_virtual_domains_maps.cf user = u password = p hosts = ip add or name of the host which the mysql db resides on dbname = query = this way you don't have to overload or open new security threats on your mail machine. /v |
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