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    • mroth911M
      mroth911
      last edited by

      What are some other open source solutions for mail servers. I would like to setup exchange but, dont have that type of environment.

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      • dafyreD
        dafyre
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        A few folks around here use Zimbra.

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        • DustinB3403D
          DustinB3403
          last edited by

          What functionality do you require?

          Calendars and scheduling or just Email?

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          • mroth911M
            mroth911
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            @DustinB3403 Calendar, Scheduling, Works with Outlook. Mobile,. I am using Iredadmin, Having problems with server timeouts. Having to flush iptables all the time.

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            • DustinB3403D
              DustinB3403
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              @mroth911 said in Building a Mail Server:

              Works with Outlook

              Why use Outlook if not with Exchange. That's an odd use of resources there since Outlook is so difficult to work with. (besides from a user perspective).

              As for email servers you could set this up from a base fedora server installation which uses Dovecot.

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              • DustinB3403D
                DustinB3403
                last edited by DustinB3403

                @mroth911 said in Building a Mail Server:

                Iredadmin

                Zentyal is another option that is "easy to administer", supports SMTP, POP3, IMAP, CalDAV, CardDav, and Sieve.

                ActiveSync for mobile devices, SSO, AD or Zentyal (domain) management, mail filtering, and a webmail client.

                But it only officially supports Thunderbird as a full client.

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                • jmooreJ
                  jmoore @mroth911
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                  @mroth911 I think Zimbra would be the first choice I can think of and then Zentyal would be my second choice in your situation.

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                  • dbeatoD
                    dbeato
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                    Zimbra is what I would recommend and for ActiveSync ZPush if using the OpenSource version.

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @dafyre
                      last edited by

                      @dafyre said in Building a Mail Server:

                      A few folks around here use Zimbra.

                      This is what we use, but we are looking into something using Soga.

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller
                        last edited by

                        MailCow is what we are looking at. @Alex-Sage recommends it. It looks promising.

                        https://mailcow.email/

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                          dave_c @scottalanmiller
                          last edited by dave_c

                          @scottalanmiller said in Building a Mail Server:

                          MailCow is what we are looking at. @Alex-Sage recommends it. It looks promising.

                          https://mailcow.email/

                          And I love it. Have been using it for some time
                          There are SOGo extensions for thunderbird and Lightning for native calendar and address books. I do not know of a native solution for integration with Outlook

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller @dave_c
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                            @dave_c said in Building a Mail Server:

                            @scottalanmiller said in Building a Mail Server:

                            MailCow is what we are looking at. @Alex-Sage recommends it. It looks promising.

                            https://mailcow.email/

                            And I love it. Have been using it for some time
                            There are SOGo extensions for thunderbird and Lightning for native calendar and address books. I do not know of a native solution for integration with Outlook

                            For us, we don't use any Outlook anywhere, so that works well for us.

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                            • mroth911M
                              mroth911
                              last edited by

                              what email client are you using

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @mroth911
                                last edited by scottalanmiller

                                @mroth911 said in Building a Mail Server:

                                what email client are you using

                                We use web, like sensible people. Fat mail clients are generally a pretty awful idea.

                                I think that the idea of using mail clients is mostly something from the Exchange world because Exchange lacked a good interface for so long. Outside of Exchange users, I rare find anyone who would even think to try out a fat mail application.

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller
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                                  Even when we were on Office 365, we didn't use Outlook. Literally the worst thing that ever happened to email. Outlook is truly awful. OWA is better, still not great. But way easier to manage, and more reliable.

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller
                                    last edited by

                                    In rare cases where we need a client, Thunderbird and MailSpring are pretty good.

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                                    • mroth911M
                                      mroth911
                                      last edited by

                                      Is there like an on premise 365 type deal? IDK just asking.

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller @mroth911
                                        last edited by

                                        @mroth911 said in Building a Mail Server:

                                        Is there like an on premise 365 type deal? IDK just asking.

                                        Not sure what you mean.

                                        Office 365 is the hosted version of Exchange. Are you thinking of Exchange as being the on-premise version of O365?

                                        Zimbra is the mail server. As is MailCow. It goes wherever you want it.

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                                        • mroth911M
                                          mroth911
                                          last edited by

                                          Ok. like the whole bundle .. exchange, word excel. Etc.

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller
                                            last edited by

                                            We ran on Zimbra for mail years, then tried Rackspace and O365, but returned to Zimbra. Zimbra is solid and pretty easy to use and "just works". It's got a lot of features. Biggest complaint is that they used to be the absolute leader in email GUIs, now they are trailing terribly having not updated for around a dozen years.

                                            Last year they promised a major new update, then silently dropped it. So a lot of people are losing faith in where they are headed.

                                            MailCow addresses that a lot more aggressively.

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