Solved Email server options
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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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Only gotten to play with it a tiny bit, but so far I am liking it. Way more modern than Zimbra, Outlook, or Gmail.
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@scottalanmiller said in Email server options:
Only gotten to play with it a tiny bit, but so far I am liking it. Way more modern than Zimbra, Outlook, or Gmail.
Modern in what way versus the others? Quantum computing? Nicer colors / better layout?
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@Obsolesce let me know if you would like an account
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@Obsolesce said in Email server options:
@scottalanmiller said in Email server options:
Only gotten to play with it a tiny bit, but so far I am liking it. Way more modern than Zimbra, Outlook, or Gmail.
Modern in what way versus the others? Quantum computing? Nicer colors / better layout?
Looks the same, but it uses all quantum mechanics underneath and communicates over EoS (Ethernet over Subspace)
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@Curtis said in Email server options:
@Obsolesce let me know if you would like an account
I'll take an account.
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The Web UI looks nice. I need to test it with Outlook and iOS/Android.
Haven't had time.
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@JaredBusch said in Email server options:
@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.
I don't understand how this doesn't make apples to apples?
You can't price out an O365 versus Zimbra in apples to apples without tossing in the costs of all of the under lying setup plus the hardware for Zimbra.
Now fine, you said you have some existing hardware that you can use for it, but will be replacing it in a year or two - that cost should definitely be added in.
And don't forget about your backup infrastructure you'll need for Zimbra as well.
Most people who use O365 rely on the site level backups that MS provides, assuming that's good enough for your client, at least you don't need to add more expense on top of O365 for that part.
also you had Windows CALs listed for the On-Prem server - why? do you not already have CALs? are they so old that you're force to replace them to get to even Server 2016?
Lastly - for now - while I agree that the end user access method isn't critical at this junction - it's still important to talk about.
I had a customer with on-prem Exchange - they moved to Rackspace email and used IMAP with Outlook, and the native email app on the phones. That seemed to work OK for several years.
Roughly a year ago they were forced away from Rackspace and wound up on Zoho. They have had nothing but massive IMAP issues ever sense. They have Outlook 2016 using IMAP, phone native email client using IMAP, and webmail when they are at home. They constantly find things missing from Outlook that appear on the phones or in webmail.My whole point in mentioning this is - it's totally possible that whatever platform you move to will have issues with IMAP and Outlook. Again, I know this doesn't really affect the server side - but it plays a factor in client satisfaction.
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@Dashrender said in Email server options:
also you had Windows CALs listed for the On-Prem server - why? do you not already have CALs? are they so old that you're force to replace them to get to even Server 2016?
Not for 2019.
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@Dashrender said in Email server options:
You can't price out an O365 versus Zimbra in apples to apples without tossing in the costs of all of the under lying setup plus the hardware for Zimbra.
I stated those other things most certainly are important to the entire decision. But they have nothing to do with the specific piece of the decision I am gathering information on now, which is the email server itself.
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@Dashrender said in Email server options:
Lastly - for now - while I agree that the end user access method isn't critical at this junction - it's still important to talk about.
Not in this thread. This thread is strictly for the Email server information.
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@Dashrender said in Email server options:
Now fine, you said you have some existing hardware that you can use for it, but will be replacing it in a year or two - that cost should definitely be added in.
Should factor, for sure. But it is often super cheap. Zimbra or MailCow use very few resources compared to something like Exchange. The per user cost gets super low in most cases. If you want a top end cost, price it out on Vultr, Digital Ocean, or Linode and see what it would cost that way. It'll be "low". And running it on your own will always be way less. So its super conservative.
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@JaredBusch said in Email server options:
@Dashrender said in Email server options:
You can't price out an O365 versus Zimbra in apples to apples without tossing in the costs of all of the under lying setup plus the hardware for Zimbra.
I stated those other things most certainly are important to the entire decision. But they have nothing to do with the specific piece of the decision I am gathering information on now, which is the email server itself.
I disagree - for example if the company demands to use Outlook for the client side - and it's know that Zoho has shitty connection to Outlook - that takes Zoho off the table from the get go.
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@scottalanmiller said in Email server options:
@Dashrender said in Email server options:
Now fine, you said you have some existing hardware that you can use for it, but will be replacing it in a year or two - that cost should definitely be added in.
Should factor, for sure. But it is often super cheap. Zimbra or MailCow use very few resources compared to something like Exchange. The per user cost gets super low in most cases. If you want a top end cost, price it out on Vultr, Digital Ocean, or Linode and see what it would cost that way. It'll be "low". And running it on your own will always be way less. So its super conservative.
Interesting. My issue on my VM platform is storage - I don't have a 500 GB+ left over to offer all 100 of my users 5+ GB
