Building a Mail Server
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@CrossBox said in Building a Mail Server:
That's correct but cPanel is not to blame here. They would include anything good enough and free (even more now when SquirrelMail got dropped out and only two webmails are left), but the current self-hosted webmail apps market is pretty outdated without much progress being made for years and most of the apps just looking old, not using the latest advancements in technology or just lacking features.
cough Zimbra cough
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cough RAM cough
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@CrossBox said in Building a Mail Server:
cough RAM cough
It's true, Zimbra uses a lot of resources.
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Even with like six cores, and eight gigs of RAM, Zimbra will lock up from time to time while doing housekeeping.
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@scottalanmiller said in Building a Mail Server:
@CrossBox said in Building a Mail Server:
cough RAM cough
It's true, Zimbra uses a lot of resources.
Yeah but can run fine for 50 mailboxes on 4 GB of RAM...
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@scottalanmiller said in Building a Mail Server:
Even with like six cores, and eight gigs of RAM, Zimbra will lock up from time to time while doing housekeeping.
Lol
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@scottalanmiller said in Building a Mail Server:
@CrossBox said in Building a Mail Server:
cough RAM cough
It's true, Zimbra uses a lot of resources.
I think I'll be moving the home lab to mailcow, more moo, less resources.
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@travisdh1 I have been very happy with Mailcow. I am testing @CrossBox with mxroute.
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@travisdh1 said in Building a Mail Server:
@scottalanmiller said in Building a Mail Server:
@CrossBox said in Building a Mail Server:
cough RAM cough
It's true, Zimbra uses a lot of resources.
I think I'll be moving the home lab to mailcow, more moo, less resources.
Stopping milking those jokes.
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@dbeato said in Building a Mail Server:
@scottalanmiller said in Building a Mail Server:
@CrossBox said in Building a Mail Server:
cough RAM cough
It's true, Zimbra uses a lot of resources.
Yeah but can run fine for 50 mailboxes on 4 GB of RAM...
Can, but it still slows way down doing... something.
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@scottalanmiller said in Building a Mail Server:
@dbeato said in Building a Mail Server:
@scottalanmiller said in Building a Mail Server:
@CrossBox said in Building a Mail Server:
cough RAM cough
It's true, Zimbra uses a lot of resources.
Yeah but can run fine for 50 mailboxes on 4 GB of RAM...
Can, but it still slows way down doing... something.
yeah, management suffers.
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@dbeato said in Building a Mail Server:
@scottalanmiller said in Building a Mail Server:
@dbeato said in Building a Mail Server:
@scottalanmiller said in Building a Mail Server:
@CrossBox said in Building a Mail Server:
cough RAM cough
It's true, Zimbra uses a lot of resources.
Yeah but can run fine for 50 mailboxes on 4 GB of RAM...
Can, but it still slows way down doing... something.
yeah, management suffers.
Even email delivery we sometimes see stop and web interfaces fail for ten minutes or so while it does whatever it is doing.
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@scottalanmiller you should checkout mailcow. I think you would be pleasantly surprised
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@Curtis said in Building a Mail Server:
@scottalanmiller you should checkout mailcow. I think you would be pleasantly surprised
I have, and it looks really nice. It's in our plans to do a full scale test, highly considering moving to it. Everything about it seems to fit our usage cases really well. Zimbra has a few features that it is lacking, but none are ones that we use. So we don't care
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@scottalanmiller I just did another mailcow installation, and it's working great! How are you making out?
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@Curtis
What is your host OS? I am using CentOS and Debian in production, but about to test Alpine -
@Curtis said in Building a Mail Server:
@scottalanmiller I just did another mailcow installation, and it's working great! How are you making out?
No time to really dig into it yet, lots of stuff going on. But I hope to get time to look at it soon.
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@dave_c Ubuntu
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@Curtis
Understood, thank you. I only use Ubuntu when it is the only or the best option, like for Xen Orchestra.
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@scottalanmiller said in Building a Mail Server:
@Curtis said in Building a Mail Server:
@scottalanmiller you should checkout mailcow. I think you would be pleasantly surprised
I have, and it looks really nice. It's in our plans to do a full scale test, highly considering moving to it. Everything about it seems to fit our usage cases really well. Zimbra has a few features that it is lacking, but none are ones that we use. So we don't care
What are the main feature differences you can think of?
