Comments on: Zimbra: Its just so enterprise-like!

By: Ravi

Ravi — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:47:59 +0000

We’re considering Zimbra as the Mail-Server/ MTA for our small office of 35 users.
Our earlier implementation was a postfix implementation on Debian.

We may still choose to use a “thunderbird” client at the user interface, as during trials, the client takes too long to load-up.

Are there any other pitfalls to look out for?

We are keen to use the feature of “shared-folders” - is this likely to show up on Zimbra?

By: ZooL

ZooL — Tue, 22 May 2007 18:03:15 +0000

I have tried it out on 400MHz 512MB machine (still remember baby AT?). Its working without any problem at all. With CentOS 4, normal PHP & MySQL for my web, some torrentflux instances..

hmm.. no problem at all.. ok laa.. a little delay when its trying to read a folder which contain about 2000 emails & I have 10 folder with the same size. Anyway it is for personal use and no other people using it except me & my wife. So don’t use the same config for your org.

4 thumbs up! The zimbra is still live until today for about 2-3 months.

By: byte

byte — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:53:41 +0000

@james: I think the strength in Zimbra is that its not split up and its all one application. Splitting up can be a nightmare with different versions and so on.

@chris: I’m sure with some minor hackery, you can get it running on Fedora Core 6. AFAIK, the only supported OSes of the 4.x release are currently RHEL4 (and consequently, CentOS 4). If you were aiming to run on Fedora, it can’t be that much harder.

64-bit is a little bit of a problem I guess - you should be able to install i386 packages on x86_64. What kind of error is RPM giving you? I say a problem, because you’ll be running 32-binaries in a 64-bit environment. multiarch works quite well, i might add, on fedora and rpm based systems.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:12:22 +0000

I really like the look of Zimbra.

I have used PHProjekt which works ok but it is not as polished as Zimbra.

However I can’t get Zimbra running on Fedora Core 6 64bit as it appears it is not supported yet. I’m not prepared to down grade as I have invested time setting up my server.

Does anyone know of a way around the Zimbra install problem. I have tryed all the suggestions on the posts in Zimbra support but I still get Error: attempting to install i386 packages on a x86_64 OS. Even though the Zimbra build I have is Enterprise Serve 64bit.

By: James

James — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:01:27 +0000

I’d love it if someone split up the parts so you can use your exising postfix, ldap, tomcat etc. installs. Not only for reducing the admin load and backup size, and easing migration but also so their improvements can be pushed upstream. See http://www.softcatala.org/~jmas/bloc/pivot/entry.php?id=266 for an excellent post on being an open source community member. Currently it appears that zimbra’s sourceforge SVN repo just gets updates pushed out from their private repository with no log information.

By: byte

byte — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:37:08 +0000

Its amazing stuff. I’ve been palying with and using it for a while, and am quite confident in its day-to-day use, and administration.

By: wahlau

wahlau — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:33:20 +0000

Zimbra does look good from the begining… just that i have no time to play with it :P perhaps time to get itchy.. :)