Hello all,
I've played with both Zimbra and Scalix and they seem quite nice and do pretty much what I want. I'm now at the point where I am considering retiring my trusty old courier-imap service in favour of one of these two, unless of course anyone has any other recommendations or suggestions. I'd probably be doing this inside a centos 4.4 Xen VMs running on centos 5 when it comes out.
Also, I'd really appreciate if anyone could share any thoughts and/or experiences with Zimbra and Scalix.
Cheers,
Brian.
I've played with both Zimbra and Scalix and they seem quite nice and do pretty much what I want. I'm now at the point where I am considering retiring my trusty old courier-imap service in favour of one of these two, unless of course anyone has any other recommendations or suggestions. I'd probably be doing this inside a centos 4.4 Xen VMs running on centos 5 when it comes out.
I am pleased with the following setup, but first the features: 1. Sync with Palm (and others) 2. Instant/push email 3. Web client 4. Multi user 5. Open source / no limits (unfortunately, the palm software is not open source) 6. Active development
Software: 1. Postfix / Amavis new / sql grey / web-cyradm (spam, virus, etc) http://www.delouw.ch/linux/Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO/html/index.html 2. Simon's Cyrus Imap (http://www.invoca.ch/pub/packages/cyrus-imapd/) including Idled for push email. 3. Egroupware (includes a SyncML server for syncing with mobile clients and a web interface). The web interface is a bit "open source looking," but works fine. (http://www.egroupware.org). I use the svn version so it is easy to update. (There is a feature for Cyrus Admin, but I have not used it). 4. Chatter email (palm client that supports idled for push email), costs money, works awesome (http://www.chatteremail.com/) 5. Synthesis SyncML Client (sync's contacts, calendars, todo's etc) with mobile client, costs money, works great(http://www.synthesis.ch/prod_client.php?lang=e&lay=desk)
Centos-admin wrote:
Hello all,
I've played with both Zimbra and Scalix and they seem quite nice and do pretty much what I want. I'm now at the point where I am considering retiring my trusty old courier-imap service in favour of one of these two, unless of course anyone has any other recommendations or suggestions. I'd probably be doing this inside a centos 4.4 Xen VMs running on centos 5 when it comes out.
Also, I'd really appreciate if anyone could share any thoughts and/or experiences with Zimbra and Scalix.
I have been using Scalix 10.0 on Centos 4.x for some time.
It runs well on a 600Mhz Pentium 4 with 512Mb memory. Of course I only have a dozen active users, but boy do I get spam...
It has problems with broken XML spam that occationally requires me to unload a mailbox, delete everything, then reload it. This is fixed in Scalix 11.
I am running multiple domains with little difficulty. Oh, and my Scalix server is also my primary DNS server. I use Webmin a lot, even though I have over 10 years with BIND. And also my little bit of web serving. Not much at all really.
I have been PLANNING on switching to Scalix 11, but my Round TUIT has been otherwise occupied. So now I am waiting for Centos 5 for the Scalix 11 move. I am putting up a test system, shaking it down, then setting up a migration plan where I back up the current server, rebuild everything then reload.
It will be fun, but I kind of think this is the best way. Maybe I should see how much another Compaq SFF will cost me so I can do a flat switch-out. (but then I have to build a box with the same host name, IP address, etc.).....
I am really happy with Scalix.
Oh, forgot to include...
Centos-admin wrote:
Hello all,
I've played with both Zimbra and Scalix and they seem quite nice and do pretty much what I want. I'm now at the point where I am considering retiring my trusty old courier-imap service in favour of one of these two, unless of course anyone has any other recommendations or suggestions. I'd probably be doing this inside a centos 4.4 Xen VMs running on centos 5 when it comes out.
Also, I'd really appreciate if anyone could share any thoughts and/or experiences with Zimbra and Scalix.
I never really got spamassasin set up right on my current setup. That is part of the plan for the Scalix 11 switch to get it all right this time...
Zimbra is the way to go. It packages everything versus requiring the packages being installed. In addition Zimbra out of the box comes with antivirus and spamassasin and a lot of additional options. I evaluated both and had problems trying to get the spamassasin and antivirus installed.
Bottom line. If you want it installed quickly with no fuss go the Zimbra route you won't be sorry. I'm using it now.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Moskowitz" rgm@htt-consult.com To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 11:45:57 AM (GMT-0500) Auto-Detected Subject: Re: [CentOS] Zimbra, Scalix or something else..
Oh, forgot to include...
Centos-admin wrote:
Hello all,
I've played with both Zimbra and Scalix and they seem quite nice and do pretty much what I want. I'm now at the point where I am considering retiring my trusty old courier-imap service in favour of one of these two, unless of course anyone has any other recommendations or suggestions. I'd probably be doing this inside a centos 4.4 Xen VMs running on centos 5 when it comes out.
Also, I'd really appreciate if anyone could share any thoughts and/or experiences with Zimbra and Scalix.
I never really got spamassasin set up right on my current setup. That is part of the plan for the Scalix 11 switch to get it all right this time...
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well, I just got that nasty POP read error for this account which means I have a bad spam with broken XML in it. Time to run through the cleanup procedure. Fortunately, it is now well documented (step-wise), and I only have 30 messages queued, rather than the 500+ I typically have when I discover this problem.
After Passover, I HAVE to get moving on the switch.
Centos-admin wrote:
Hello all,
I've played with both Zimbra and Scalix and they seem quite nice and do pretty much what I want. I'm now at the point where I am considering retiring my trusty old courier-imap service in favour of one of these two, unless of course anyone has any other recommendations or suggestions. I'd probably be doing this inside a centos 4.4 Xen VMs running on centos 5 when it comes out.
Also, I'd really appreciate if anyone could share any thoughts and/or experiences with Zimbra and Scalix.
Cheers,
Brian.
Centos-admin wrote:
I've played with both Zimbra and Scalix and they seem quite nice and do pretty much what I want. I'm now at the point where I am considering retiring my trusty old courier-imap service in favour of one of these two, unless of course anyone has any other recommendations or suggestions. I'd probably be doing this inside a centos 4.4 Xen VMs running on centos 5 when it comes out.
Also, I'd really appreciate if anyone could share any thoughts and/or experiences with Zimbra and Scalix.
Do you need any particular features of these servers? If you are just looking for generic mail system plus webmail and are planning on giving it its own real or virtual machine, you might like the SME server distribution which is sort-of based on Centos but is pre-configured and has all administration done through a simple web interface: http://www.contribs.org
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