[brlug-general] PostPath
Ronnie Gilkey
rgilkey at gmail.com
Fri Sep 28 16:38:34 CDT 2007
Tim Fournet wrote:
> We're using Zimbra over here, and hosting over 1000 users and about a
> dozen companies on it. We had some growing pains with the older
> versions, but nowadays it's smooth as silk. The big benefit of Zimbra is
> the really nice web interface, and ability to extend it with 'zimlets'
> which are applets that do Web 2.0 style mashups. For example, if someone
> emails you a UPS tracking number, there's a Zimlet that recognizes that
> regex and turns it into a hyperlink to UPS's tracking site. The LDAP
> integration is really slick as well. You can have Zimbra be the back-end
> LDAP database for your organization, or you can have it look up another
> authoritative database for authentication.
>
> Ronnie Gilkey wrote:
>
>> Andrew Baudouin wrote:
>>
>>> I'd assume it requires RHEL or CentOS...
>>>
>>> I know some shops that are sick of paying 67 a seat but don't like
>>> the required plugins of Scalix or other solutions. MS's 16GB limit
>>> on public folders on all non-Enterprise Exchange flavors rubs a lot
>>> of people the wrong way as well.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9/28/07, *Ronnie Gilkey* <ronnie at puryear-it.com
>>> <mailto:ronnie at puryear-it.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Andrew Baudouin wrote:
>>>
>>>> First I'd heard of it. Most interesting is its native MAPI
>>>> support for plugin-less installs.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 9/28/07, *Ronnie Gilkey* < ronnie at puryear-it.com
>>>> <mailto:ronnie at puryear-it.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone ever successfully installed this?:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.postpath.com/
>>>>
>>>> Ronnie
>>>>
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>>> It looks to be very useful, and a pretty good Exchange
>>> replacement. The problem is their installer fails miserably and
>>> attempts to run command line programs with options that aren't
>>> supported. And it's not open source, so it's a PITA to try and
>>> get working.
>>>
>>> Ronnie
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>> Yah, supposedly it can run on RHEL (or the equivalent CentOS), or
>> OpenSuSE. Right now I'm just checking out Groupware systems. Zimbra
>> (http://www.zimbra.com) has a very nice open source suite that works
>> very well and is a quick install as well, I'm partial to it (plus it
>> provides it's own LDAP server for integration with other applications
>> / hosts).
>>
>> >From my experience Scalix has it's own issues, like being a horrible
>> kludge of over 275 binaries and continuous system errors. But from
>> what I hear it's getting better. Plugins are a bad mark in my book as
>> well -- who wants to maintain the plug-in on all the desktops in your
>> network?
>>
>> What other packages out there are you familiar with?
>>
>> Ronnie
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I've got a virtual machine setup w/ Zimbra in-house. I really like it's
look and feel / usability. I'll have to try out some of the zimlets
available. LDAP is a plus for us, since we use it to with services on
our network. I'm also glad to hear it performs well with a lot of users
/ under load.
Ronnie
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