[opensuse-packaging] Should we evaluate Zimbra ? - a next-gen Mail Server
It seems that Zimbra arrived: The Next-Gen mail server, similar to GMail in concept and powerful features, but Open-Source, and installable in the Enterprise (not just on the Internet). That is: Zimbra, like GMail is both a mail server, mail client and HTTP server, which makes it possible to connect to Zimbra from any Web browser, but it can be connected from any emailing client (like Thunderbird). Zimbra has also integrated support for Calendars. It can give serious combat to Microsoft Exchange, and other (older) Linux email servers. Now if we this type of server, we should evaluate it more closely. I haven't evaluated it, just seen their flash demos. (and liked them a LOT! ) I'm as a Home user don't need an email server at Home. I use GMail. But this can make a revolution within an Enterprise. -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org
Hello, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
It can give serious combat to Microsoft Exchange, and other (older) Linux email servers.
Now if we this type of server, we should evaluate it more closely.
I haven't evaluated it, just seen their flash demos. (and liked them a LOT! )
I'm as a Home user don't need an email server at Home. I use GMail. But this can make a revolution within an Enterprise.
I tested a previous version earlier this year. It's really great, but also has some down sides. Positive: - free / OSS - full featured e-mail & calendar server Negative: - resource hog (written in Java) - many duplicate work inside, as uses it's own apache / postfix / clamav - some interesting features are missing from the OSS version So, practically it can be installed over a base installation of openSUSE and needs a dedicated (virtual) machine. While I'm not sure, if this is something to be bundled with openSUSE, it would be great, if it could be ported to 10.2 or factory (when tested, only SuSE 10.0 was supported). Bye, CzP --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org
Peter Czanik escribió:
So, practically it can be installed over a base installation of openSUSE and needs a dedicated (virtual) machine. While I'm not sure, if this is something to be bundled with openSUSE, it would be great, if it could be ported to 10.2 or factory (when tested, only SuSE 10.0 was supported).
[sorry to the people that will recieve this message in two lists, <rant>the annoying,non-sense behaviuor of the reply-to stuff on this lists are very error prone and I submitted this post to the wrong list</rant>] I have looked into this too in the past, however I concluded that integration requires a fairly large amount of work, unfortuantely this guys does not realize that distributions already has many of that components and insist on consistent, annoying and non-sense wheel reinvention. *sigh*.
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