Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions
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As a follow up, we've been on Zimbra now for quite some time and we are extremely happy with it still. It's been rock solid, been through several upgrades, and "just works". Easy to manage, easy to work on, and great for the end users. Far better than the Hosted Exchange or Gmail that I also have to use for different places. I use all three and for me, Zimbra is the least flashy but most functional. And on the admin side, it is the simplest.
We have been on Zimbra 8.7 for a while. Rumour is that there will be a heavily revamped interface in 8.8. That will be a really big deal.
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Lol now Scott seems to be advocating for self hosted email.
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@dashrender said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:
Lol now Scott seems to be advocating for self hosted email.
Well DCH owns a email hosting company, so... it's not exactly self hosted.
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Been very happy as a Zimbra user. Straightforward to use for sure.
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Edit: wrong thread. Moved to the Sodium update.
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@dashrender said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:
Lol now Scott seems to be advocating for self hosted email.
I agree with you, what an u-turn @scottalanmiller !
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Did you guys miss where our Zimbra is hosted?
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@scottalanmiller Do you mean you host it with this company?
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All the Zimbra Servers we have are either hosted locally or cloud based.
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@dbeato said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:
@scottalanmiller Do you mean you host it with this company?
https://twitter.com/hostingdchNo, who is that?
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@dbeato said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:
All the Zimbra Servers we have are either hosted locally or cloud based.
What's the other option?
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@scottalanmiller It is a Chilean hosting company, that doesn't host Zimbra for email.
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@scottalanmiller Do you mean other hosting or other Email Solution?
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@dbeato said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:
@scottalanmiller Do you mean other hosting or other Email Solution?
I mean besides hosted or on premises.
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@scottalanmiller Collocation in a Datacenter.
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Comcast Webmail is also using Zimbra.
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@black3dynamite said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:
Comcast Webmail is also using Zimbra.
Not the best endorsement.
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Just following up. We've been using Zimbra now for quite some time more. It's been another year. The product has improved slightly, we've had a few hiccups in patching and cert management (their system is ridiculous, but it is scripted by now.) We have improved SPAM handling dramatically. We went through an IP black list and added MailGun to handle our outgoing email reliability which has been great.
Overall, another year and extremely happy with being on Zimbra.
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@scottalanmiller said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:
Just following up. We've been using Zimbra now for quite some time more. It's been another year. The product has improved slightly, we've had a few hiccups in patching and cert management (their system is ridiculous, but it is scripted by now.) We have improved SPAM handling dramatically. We went through an IP black list and added MailGun to handle our outgoing email reliability which has been great.
Overall, another year and extremely happy with being on Zimbra.
Where you on a shared IP? If not, why were you having blacklist problems?
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@Dashrender said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:
@scottalanmiller said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:
Just following up. We've been using Zimbra now for quite some time more. It's been another year. The product has improved slightly, we've had a few hiccups in patching and cert management (their system is ridiculous, but it is scripted by now.) We have improved SPAM handling dramatically. We went through an IP black list and added MailGun to handle our outgoing email reliability which has been great.
Overall, another year and extremely happy with being on Zimbra.
Where you on a shared IP? If not, why were you having blacklist problems?
No, not a shared IP. That's not how Microsoft and Spamhaus do blacklisting. It has nothing to do with abuse from your IP. They block indiscriminantly.