Hans-Christian Andersen
hans.andersen at phulse.com
Fri Jan 18 05:36:48 CST 2013
Hi Mark, Ya, nr 4 is a problem if you don't want the overhead of maintaining the server, but, in all honesty, it is really quite reliable and a backup procedure is quite straightforward without much effort. I could give you a few tips on that if you are still interested. Regarding clients, I personally just use the web interface, but my company uses Thunderbird for the most part. Outlook works just as well and any other client that supports IMAP, which should be most of them these days. Even Eudora supports IMAP. :p But the web interface works very well, is quite fast and the interface is polished and modern and so I just use that. It even has an optional template to look nearly identical to Gmail. :) Also, Zimbra does provide a native desktop client, which fully integrates with the Zimbra server as well along with the same look and feel. I can send you think link if that interests you. Regarding spam, Zimbra uses spam assassin, which does quite a decent job of filtering spam and Zimbra does do adaptive learning and also allows you to set up filtering, etc. If not good enough, there are plenty of cheap 3rd party services that can do that for you as well at a minimal cost and difficulty, such as mailroute.net ... If you feel it is necessary! I have to admit, Googles spam filtering is really quite remarkably good. Before switching to Google Apps, I used to route my personal email through Gmail and then have it forward to my primary account. It worked quite well, for such a round about set up, but I have since switched entirely to google apps for my personal email for a while now. I am also very annoyed about Googles recent change of heart. But, if I had a spare server, I would definitely consider Zimbra. :) Best regards, Hans-Christian Andersen On 18 Jan 2013, at 01:34, Mark Breen <marklbreen at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Hans-Christian, > > I have just viewed the video for Zimbra and it looks like a lovely product. > > The features of gmail that I liked were > > 1) quick to set up > 2) free so it was no biggie even for very small clients > 3) Web interface, so no local files on laptops or pcs > 4) no software to install anywhere, no backups, no servers to go down > > In summary, it caused me zero worry. > > Zimbra would satisify the first three, and I suppose if I have a cloud > based server, I could assume it would never go down, but I would still be > an email administrator. Not sure if I really want that. > > On the other hand, I could create my own Zimbra server and offer email > services to anyone that wanted it - but that is not core business for me. > > What do you typically use for a client, the web interface or a local client > such as Thunderbird? > > Do you have a spam filter built into Zimbra ? > > thanks for informing us of a lovely product. > > > Mark > > > > > > On 18 January 2013 03:57, Hans-Christian Andersen > <hans.andersen at phulse.com>wrote: > >> >> If you want something free or low cost, perhaps Zimbra might be of >> interest to you. It's a collaboration server and they have a free open >> source version. You get email, chat, calendar, contacts, shared document >> storage, etc. You have to host it on a server, but it's really quite easy >> to install and maintain and has a web admin interface for managing your >> accounts and email services. The cost would be as much as it costs for you >> to host a server (in your office or some VPS out there). >> >> We've been using it at my company for 5+ years. It's quite stable and >> reliable to use for businesses. It has a web-based interface for checking >> your mail and contact management and calendar, etc etc so you can access >> your emails where ever you like or on the go. But, you can, of course, also >> just connect Outlook, your phone or whatever other email client application >> via IMAP. >> >> http://www.zimbra.com/products/zimbra-open-source.html >> >> It's great. The only downside I can think of is that it's not very good >> for sending high volumes of email, like if you do mass volume mail >> marketing (but then you would probably be better off having a dedicated >> server with a highly tuned postfix daemon for that) . But for normal, every >> day use, it works like a charm and I haven't see any other open source >> alternatives that quite has the same level of polish, range of productivity >> features and easy of installation/maintenance. >> >> Also, if it's important, for a fee, you can also get a MS Exchange adaptor >> that lets Outlook connect to it as if it was an Exchange server and do all >> that extra integration stuff that you can do with an Exchange server. But >> it costs money, because it is proprietary Microsoft technology and you have >> to pay them a license fee for that. >> >> >> - Hans >> >> >> >> On 2013-01-17, at 9:20 AM, Mark Breen <marklbreen at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hello All, >>> >>> Since Sept 2006 I have been using Google Apps for company based email for >>> my clients. >>> >>> As you may know, as of Dec 6th 2012, google no longer offer this service >>> for free. It must now be paid for at a rate of US$50 Per user per year. >>> For a small company 5 - 10 employees, this is not expensive, but over 5 >>> years, it still amounts to 1250 - 2500. >>> >>> In my opinion, it is still good value for what you get, but I wonder what >>> you use if you want to have company based *cloud *email for free. >>> >>> Any recommendations ? >>> >>> Mark >>> _______________________________________________ >>> dba-Tech mailing list >>> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >>> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >>> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dba-Tech mailing list >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com