<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Ian Wilson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ian.m.wilson@gmail.com">ian.m.wilson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Ken Moffat<<a href="mailto:kmoffat@drizzle.com">kmoffat@drizzle.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Has anyone used Zimbra? Is it a viable alternative?<br>
<br>
</div>I use Zimbra both personally, and for hosted email for a friend of<br>
mine (whom I'm hosting his website and managing his IT stuff for).<br>
<br>
Sharing calendars doesn't seem to work, and, outside of using the<br>
Zimbra Desktop, you can't easily see one another's calendar, however,<br>
tying Zimbra into a SugarCRM installation was incredibly easy.<br>
<br>
As far as day-to-day maintenance -- none really. It does a good job<br>
of keeping the spam and antivirus email filters up to date, and my<br>
backup scripts/monitoring handle the rest. The one bad thing that I<br>
don't like about Zimbra (and this is just my personal preference) is<br>
that it's a J2EE hog. Every public facing service, with the exception<br>
of postfix, is a Java server, and, tuning the JVM can be a bit of a<br>
pain the first few times around. Administration is simple, but<br>
through the UI (or, API).<br>
<br>
If you have any other questions, let me know.<br>
<br>
Ian<br>
<font color="#888888"></font></blockquote><div><br>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.<br>
<br>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?)<br>
<br>Sorry, seems off topic for this list.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br></div></div>-- <br>Ken Moffat<br>kmoffat at modizzle dot net<br>