[LUNI] [FWD: Linux - Zimbra - your opinion]

[Jason Hedden]

I've been using Release 5 for a bit now. Seems pretty stable, and has a lot of nice features (it'll even pick up lotus notes calendar events.) I also really like the amount of control available from a CLI.

Few things to watch out for:
It's a resource hog, expect 2GB of memory dedicated to Zimbra.

Zimbra recommends that you don't use a fire wall... This wasn't an option for me. open ports 25,80,389,443,465,993,5222,5223,7071. I'm still tweaking it a bit, but this seems to work.

The admin console will connect back to the system via ssh. If you change the default ssh port it'll break the admin console. Use `zmprov ms server.domain zimbraRemoteManagementPort ##` to resolve it.


I do miss procmail though =(

-Jason


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Seva Epsteyn" <seva at sevatech.com>
> To: "Linux Users Of Northern Illinois - Technical Discussion" <luni at luni.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 11:27:47 AM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago
> Subject: Re: [LUNI] [FWD: Linux - Zimbra - your opinion]>

> Zimbra is not a distribution, it's a mail, calendaring, tasks, IM, etc 
> system that competes with things like MS Exchange and runs on top of a 
> number of Linux distros.

> I've setup Zimbra for a medium sized company before and have used it 
> myself, and I highly recommend it.  It uses a lot of open source 
> components (such as postfix) and is itself available in an open 
> source version.  Release 5 is just around the corner - try the beta 
> release.

> -Seva

On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Mike Scott wrote:

> I received the email below from a friend of mine who is looking to break
> free from MSFT and is considering a turnkey Linux application.  Has
> anybody heard of the distro he is talking about and/or do you have any
> other suggestions for implementing an easy email/calendar server that
> can be set up to allow his family to continue using Outlook as the
> client.  They don't run Linux on the desktop (yet) and don't plan to.
> 
> - Mike Scott
> 
> > I recently purchased two domains, I am considering using this domain for my family.  
> > 
> > If I switch Sandra over to this domain, it will free up a CAL for SBS
> > 2003 on the business domain.  Also, I want to set up a domain for
> > the house with email for the kids, and have a shared family calendar via
> > "exchange" like.
> > 
> > Either I buy another license with 5 CALS for a second SBS 2003 server,
> > this seems to be the most economical software purchase.  Then we can use
> > Outlook, in exchange mode.  Also keeping Sandra on Outlook makes my life
> > easier.
> > 
> > The guys who are assisting me with managing my
> > SBS 2003 server installation, are recommending I try the Zimbra Linux
> > server application found at www.zimbra.com.
> > 
> > It claims to have seamless outlook integration, but it looks to me like
> > you have to purchase the commercial version to get the shared exchange
> > database features?
> > 
> > If I go with the SBS 2003, I will have Taylor put the www and ftp for
> > the family on one of the existing linux servers and only use the SBS2003
> > server for email.
> > 
> > I am interested in learning how to install the linux, I downloaded the
> > software, but am already over my head.
> > 
> > Let me know what you think, or if you know of a better solution.
> 
> 
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