Yes the community edition still has to be backed up via a perl or bash script 
but several exist and work well. The main problem being that you have to 
shutdown the server to backup all the files. 
http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title=Open_Source_Edition_Backup_Procedure

It still has a complex mail-dir structure system. The community version does 
both have an LDAP Server and can also authenticate against an LDAP server i.e. 
OpenLDAP, AD, Ebox etc.





Simon Vass 
Technical Manager 
E-Tech Uganda Ltd 

http://www.etech.ug 
Tel: +256 (0) 312260620 or (0) 312260621 
email: [email protected] 
skype: e-techservicedesk 


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kyle Spencer" <[email protected]>
To: "Linux Users Group Uganda" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, 24 February, 2010 2:46:05 PM
Subject: Re: [LUG] Webmail Open source

The community version of Zimbra also doesn't come with backup/restore
functionality last I checked.  That said, I do believe I saw a few 3rd
party scripts floating around the Internet to handle this, though I
haven't tried any myself.

Furthermore, even if you wanted to use your own backup solution
(rdiff-backup, Bacula, etc), you still can't easily restore individual
e-mails/mailboxes/etc because Zimbra Community uses some ridiculous form
of maildir+indexing with randomized filenames & paths for storage.

Also, last time I worked with it there was no good way of saving
sent-items to an external IMAP-accounts sent-items folder.

Simon, do these issues still persist in the newer versions?  Also, does
the community version have LDAP support?

On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 13:50 +0300, Simon Vass wrote:
> Zimbra Server has two editions the community release or the Network release. 
> The community release is very feature complete unless you want native 
> Blackberry support or Outlook Connector support, but used with Zimbra Desktop 
> Client which is totally free I have found to be a very good exchange 
> replacement.
> 
> Wondering what VMWare will do with it now?
> 
> 
> Simon Vass 
> Technical Manager 
> E-Tech Uganda Ltd 
> 
> http://www.etech.ug 
> Tel: +256 (0) 312260620 or (0) 312260621 
> email: [email protected] 
> skype: e-techservicedesk 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Simon Vass" <[email protected]>
> To: "Linux Users Group Uganda" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, 22 February, 2010 1:37:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [LUG] Webmail Open source
> 
> Roundcube? What isn't exactly free about Zimbra?
> 
> Simon Vass
> Technical Manager
> E-Tech Uganda Ltd
> http://www.etech.ug
> Tel: +256 (0) 312260620 or (0) 312260621
> Email: [email protected]
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Malcolm" <[email protected]>
> To: "Linux Users Group Uganda" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, 22 February, 2010 1:17:16 PM
> Subject: [LUG] Webmail Open source
> 
> 
> hello guys, 
> need advise. which is a really good webmail opensource. Squirrel is too basic 
> and Zimbra isnt exactly free. Horde is somewhat okay but is there anything 
> close to exchange. thanks. 
> 
> Malcolm 
> 



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