Solved Email server options
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@DustinB3403 said in Email server options:
@zachary715 said in Email server options:
@scottalanmiller said in Email server options:
@zachary715 said in Email server options:
Even being a year or two down the road, that's extra hardware you know you wouldn't otherwise need if hosted therefore a portion of the hardware upgrade costs should be allocated today in my opinion.
I would generally agree with this. Unless, and this is more common than you think, the company will not buy less hardware even if you wouldn't add in the workload. I have lots of companies that have a minimum purchasing threshhold for servers and it is so high, that all of their workloads, plus tons more, always have plenty of resources. So something like email would remain free for them essentially forever, because the resources that it needs diminish rapidly over time.
So I agree, but make sure you evaluate reasonable projected excess resources as part of the equation.
So why do they have minimum purchasing thresholds if they're exceedingly greater than what they need? What's driving that?
Budget controls to ensure there is a pool of money to take from should they need it. (for whatever they may need money that is otherwise unbudgeted)
More, I meant, that they would not be willing to buy a server with less than X cores or Y RAM and their minimums are so big that you need workloads to keep it all busy
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@zachary715 said in Email server options:
@scottalanmiller said in Email server options:
@zachary715 said in Email server options:
Even being a year or two down the road, that's extra hardware you know you wouldn't otherwise need if hosted therefore a portion of the hardware upgrade costs should be allocated today in my opinion.
I would generally agree with this. Unless, and this is more common than you think, the company will not buy less hardware even if you wouldn't add in the workload. I have lots of companies that have a minimum purchasing threshhold for servers and it is so high, that all of their workloads, plus tons more, always have plenty of resources. So something like email would remain free for them essentially forever, because the resources that it needs diminish rapidly over time.
So I agree, but make sure you evaluate reasonable projected excess resources as part of the equation.
So why do they have minimum purchasing thresholds if they're exceedingly greater than what they need? What's driving that?
Hubris, I think. In the SMB especially, but enterprises a little, just having big, fancy servers (or SAN, or phones, etc.) drives a lot of purchasing decisions. Makes the owners or managers feel powerful or fancy or something.
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@zachary715 said in Email server options:
I would like however to deploy it in a lab just to play with and learn.
I feel like Zimbra is waning. If you are going to play, start with MailCow, IMHO. I've not used it yet, but looks nice and some people here have been raving about it. We are going to audition it ourselves one of these days when time allows.
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@scottalanmiller said in Email server options:
@JaredBusch said in Email server options:
@scottalanmiller said in Email server options:
We run in house email on Zimbra
How is spam filtering handled?
In our case, we use Zimbra's built in components. Not the best, but not bad. It's free, so that's a big factor for us. Was like a 15 minute one time setup and now it just works (so far.)
If we wanted, our outbound mail handler (MailGun) will do inbound spam filtering for us for cheap. But we've not gone down that path (yet.)
Not the best is likely not good enough for a 120 user organization consisting of zero technical users.
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@Obsolesce said in Email server options:
Maybe if you factor in labor, cost of Windows and MS management, time etx, perhaps cloud is better?
Those have nothing to do with the apple to apples cost of the Mail Server options themselves.
Those have lots to do with the final total. I know how to do math so that has nothing to do with my question on costing out options.
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@scottalanmiller said in Email server options:
Only things that don't are hobby systems like GoDaddy, and even that probably does.
That is Office 365 Exchange Online now.
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@JaredBusch said in Email server options:
@scottalanmiller said in Email server options:
@JaredBusch said in Email server options:
@scottalanmiller said in Email server options:
We run in house email on Zimbra
How is spam filtering handled?
In our case, we use Zimbra's built in components. Not the best, but not bad. It's free, so that's a big factor for us. Was like a 15 minute one time setup and now it just works (so far.)
If we wanted, our outbound mail handler (MailGun) will do inbound spam filtering for us for cheap. But we've not gone down that path (yet.)
Not the best is likely not good enough for a 120 user organization consisting of zero technical users.
Well, not the best has been better than some of the big players
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@JaredBusch When you/they make a decision, I'd like to know what the decision was and what ultimate factors led to the decision.
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O365 - we all have better things to do than manage a stupid mail server, come on.
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@MattSpeller said in Email server options:
O365 - we all have better things to do than manage a stupid mail server, come on.
I totally agree on a personal level. but that is not how business works.
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@zachary715 said in Email server options:
@JaredBusch When you/they make a decision, I'd like to know what the decision was and what ultimate factors led to the decision.
It will be weeks down the line.
But I will post something .
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@MattSpeller said in Email server options:
O365 - we all have better things to do than manage a stupid mail server, come on.
Doesn't really work that way. It's still management, one of the reasons we like to remove O365 is to reduce management time. O365 takes us almost as much time as Zimbra, but costs a lot more. If O365 saved us management time, it would be one thing. But I'm not sure that it does. Zimbra is so much less effort for email tasks, but more for platform tasks. With a large number of users, Zimbra gets easier. We definitely have customers where for saving IT time, we want to move from O365 specifically for the reason that you stated.
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Anyone who wants to check out Mailcow just let me know, I can give you an account to test
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@Curtis said in Email server options:
Anyone who wants to check out Mailcow just let me know, I can give you an account to test
Hey yeah, hook me up. That'll save some time versus standing one up to see it.
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@Curtis said in Email server options:
Anyone who wants to check out Mailcow just let me know, I can give you an account to test
I need to do this obviously
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PM me your email address
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@Curtis said in Email server options:
PM me your email address
or I can just PM you the information if you would like
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Sent
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Only gotten to play with it a tiny bit, but so far I am liking it. Way more modern than Zimbra, Outlook, or Gmail.
