[ale] Zimbra

JD jdp at algoloma.com
Fri Aug 8 15:47:05 EDT 2014


I've been a zimbra administrator for about 6 years.
Zimbra really wants to be on a dedicated server.  No procmail. However, you can setup external accnts for the zimbra user to access. Fetchmai isn't needed. I love the enterprise calendar ing and setver-side rules so every client sees msgs in the same folders.

Postfix is MTA used by zimbra, so it can handle 99.95% of the needs for most businesses.

Zimbra Desktop is dead. That is a good thing. Thunderbird + lightning work well.

I've never tried outlook w/ zimbra but IMAPs is imaps, right?

On August 8, 2014 3:22:23 PM EDT, Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
>Anyone here use Zimbra well enough to answer my question?
>
>Currently I use fetchmail on user accounts to grab mail from Earthlink,
>
>process through procmail, then Spamassassin and ClamAV and finally 
>written to /var/spool/mail/<USER>.  I have multiple domains on this 
>system.  If mail is sent to the asme user at another domain then it is 
>send directly to this system. Sendmail catches it then it goes through 
>procmail.
>
>These users use Outlook via IMAPS to access this via Dovecot and we use
>
>a 3rd party mail relay service to send mail out.
>
>The users are asking for Exchange type features.  Zimbra comes to 
>mind.   If I loaded Zimbra on this system would it replace Sendmail?  
>Can it figure out that the source is /var/spool/mail/<user> or could I 
>modify each users .procmailrc in their home to insert the email in
>Zimbra?
>
>What I want to do is setup a test host at Rackspace Cloud.  Use 
>fetchmail on it to retrieve a user's mail from our mail system. Load 
>Zimbra on it and see how it works.
>
>The users can then access Zimbra via Outlook, Zimbra Desktop, or the
>Web 
>Interface.  I've been using OpenMail, but have not updated it since


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