Building a Mail Server
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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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A few folks around here use Zimbra.
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What functionality do you require?
Calendars and scheduling or just Email?
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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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@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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@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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@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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Zimbra is what I would recommend and for ActiveSync ZPush if using the OpenSource version.
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@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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MailCow is what we are looking at. @Alex-Sage recommends it. It looks promising.
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@scottalanmiller said in Building a Mail Server:
MailCow is what we are looking at. @Alex-Sage recommends it. It looks promising.
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 -
@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.
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 OutlookFor us, we don't use any Outlook anywhere, so that works well for us.
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what email client are you using
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@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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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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In rare cases where we need a client, Thunderbird and MailSpring are pretty good.
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Is there like an on premise 365 type deal? IDK just asking.
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@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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Ok. like the whole bundle .. exchange, word excel. Etc.
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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.
