Zimbra, meet iPhone

I really don't like the iPhone. OK, I just don't like its horrific typing interface. I've tried to convince myself that I like hitting a flat panel, but I don't. I hate it. Some things are best left tactile...

But I must admit I was tempted when John Robb shot me an e-mail indicating that Zimbra was developing its application to run "on" the iPhone. Then I read about it again in Dan Farber's blog. Fortunately, there's $600 worth of reasons not to cave in on this one.

But I'm tempted. Sorely tempted. Looks so pretty, and I'm so superficial... :-)

Speaking of temptation, I'm pushing to have my employer switch from our current mail server to Zimbra. We're coming up on 33 percent of the company running Macs now, with a smattering of Linux too. Zimbra's treatment of the Mac as a first-class citizen is looking very good right about now.

I know Stephen O'Grady has had good experiences with Zimbra. Anything one can share about their experience in moving to Zimbra? Either positive or negative? You can either use the TalkBack forum or send me an e-mail.

[jstride]

A vote for zimbra

Hi Matt,

We use zimbra and have helped a number of people install and use it (I will admit my slight biased here as we are a Zimbra reseller) from small SMEs to a department within the NHS.

The only issue we have come across is with the lack of task support which will be rectified in the next major release.

Jake

[pscoop]

Zimbra quitely does the job

Hi Matt,

When the office grew to the point we needed a more integrated solution then looking around we decided to try Zimbra. I have admit that I was very nervous - previous experience with other groupware apps wasn't great and our testing showed that to get the full features (at least back then) everyone would have to shift to the web UI. Knowing that everyone (especially me) gets wedded to the desktop mail client (mostly Evolution, some Thunderbird, and Mac Mail) made me worry that it would be rejected or not used properly.

However Zimbra just did the job: it did enough things well to overcome the small niggles (old brushed metal UI is fugly, other little bugs, etc) - since we went with about 18 months ago the releases have consistently fixed issues and added new useful features. Now that I'm about to change jobs I wondering how I'll manage without Zimbra.

(as a side note we're a classic example of the open source adoption curve: we started out using the open source edition and once it proved itself we were quite happy to pay for the supported version - my only complaint there is that it seems the minimum license / support pack is 25 seats, which can be initially offputting when there is only 10 of us)

[karlgee]

Zimbra is wonderful and only getting better

We have been evaluating Zimbra after reading this: http://www.asktheadmin.com/2007/06/get-out-of-revolving-m-door-alternative.html . It pushed me over the top that i could demo it as a VMWare appliance. The Digg community loved it as well.

We are mostly a PC shop over here so getting them to switch away from Exchange is hard work - but Zimbra is making it easier. Add full blackberry support and I am sold!

[pchow98]

Zimbra and Macs in Active Directory environment

I am unaware that OSX or Linux supports the use of SMB signing or IPSec with IKE and other Active Directory type transport authentication mechanism. Are these supported now? As for Zimbra, I was really impressed with it and it seems to be a nice replacement of Exchange for SMB shop.