> Zimbra FTW. > > Especially in 6.0, it's exactly the same as Exchange (in fact, in > Apple Mail, I told it that my Zimbra server was an Exchange server, > and now it happily keeps my iCal and Zimbra calendar in sync > automagically).
Do you use zimbra as your main email server, for all your day to day mail, and collaboration with colleagues? Do you work for another company, and also use exchange for all your day to day mail and collaboration with colleagues? So that way, you could say you have a true solid grounds for comparison... Do you never find that either of them behaves strange or buggy? I tried Kerio for a few months, which I naively assumed to be equal but different from zimbra. I found where people said it was "just like exchange," there were some important differences. Kerio uses an outlook connector plugin. This is meant to emulate all the exchange functionality, but as in any emulator, nobody's perfect, and there will be some subtle differences. When I search my mail in Kerio, outlook locks up until the search is complete and all the results are displayed. When I search my mail in exchange, the spyglass spins around and I can do other things while it's working, and if I see the results I want, I can stop the search before it's complete. Also, items in my calendar ... If I enter notes into the body of a calendar event ... with Kerio, a reminder comes up, and I double click it, and it asks "open this occurrence, or the series?" If I open the series, everything's fine. If I open the occurrence, the notes are blank. Long story short, there were a lot of little bugs like that. Good enough to use. Good enough to say it's the same, only if you don't use both and have a good measure for comparison. So then ... Kerio says it supports activesync, and blackberry via notifylink and astrasync, which is supposed to be just as good as BES. But I never have any problems with BES, and yet, activesync constantly disconnects when on wifi, and with either notifylink or astrasync, I had problems with my reminders not occurring. And then when you login to the web interface ... Kerio could search only based on to/from/subject fields, and maybe some other fields. But it couldn't search message body. So I've grown very skeptical of "it's just like exchange." I have seen bugs in exchange 2003 and outlook 2003. But ever since exchange 2007 and outlook 2007 ... it's simply awesome. I never encounter any weird bugs at all, and it's much faster than any other mail system I use, particularly gmail and Kerio. Admittedly, I haven't tried zimbra. Maybe it is truly better than Kerio? _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
