Am 08.01.2009 um 00:54 schrieb Bo Lynch: > > So are you required to run zimbras release of these packages? > For Zimbra, yes. But honestly: how on earth would they be able to guarantee that it's working correctly in any other meaningful way? Would you like to do support for your product that relies on a dozen or more external other products (that aren't maintained in most Enterprise Linux distributions anyway) when any of the vendors you support the product on can introduce a patch anyday that changes some stuff only you need in your software - and now you have customers all over the world phoning you why your P-O-S-software stopped working out- of-a-sudden. They have to maintain their own releases. > If you are forced to use them then how delayed are the releases. There's a new release every couple of months. See http://pm.zimbra.com It's not that bad. If there is some serious problem, they provide extra hotfixes, too. It's (well, supposed to be) a turnkey-product. At least, the pay-version is. > > Are you able to use something other than amavis and clam for > scanning?? No. > We > use a product called VAMS released by central command for spam and > antivirus on our mail server currently. These guys are very generous > with > pricing when it comes to educational facilities in case anyone is > looking. > You can still use it. Just not on the Zimbra-server. I'm actually glad they don't have so many "use this instead of that" stuff. Just more stuff that could go wrong and that nobody QAs anyway. Rainer