Zimbra

[Ian Wilson]

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Ken Moffat<kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:
> Has anyone used Zimbra? Is it a viable alternative?

I use Zimbra both personally, and for hosted email for a friend of
mine (whom I'm hosting his website and managing his IT stuff for).

Sharing calendars doesn't seem to work, and, outside of using the
Zimbra Desktop, you can't easily see one another's calendar, however,
tying Zimbra into a SugarCRM installation was incredibly easy.

As far as day-to-day maintenance -- none really.  It does a good job
of keeping the spam and antivirus email filters up to date, and my
backup scripts/monitoring handle the rest.  The one bad thing that I
don't like about Zimbra (and this is just my personal preference) is
that it's a J2EE hog.  Every public facing service, with the exception
of postfix, is a Java server, and, tuning the JVM can be a bit of a
pain the first few times around.  Administration is simple, but
through the UI (or, API).

If you have any other questions, let me know.

Ian
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