Zimbra

[Ken Moffat]

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Ian Wilson <ian.m.wilson at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>

I was thinking of using it for a small office, about a half-dozen desktops,
but calendar sharing is important, or at least having one shared calendar
for all to read/write.

We've been using thunderbird, a yahoo shared calendar, and a network share
for document storage. It works (simple needs) but external access is through
logmein. MSOffice is what they chose, so could use Office on line, or google
apps, but would prefer local control, with low maintenance and little cost.
(asking a lot?)

Sorry, seems off topic for this list.

Thanks,

-- 
Ken Moffat
kmoffat at modizzle dot net
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