Re: [PLUG] So, That's it for Thunderbird

["Lee H. Marzke" <lee@marzke.net>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rich Freeman" <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net>
> To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
> Sent: Saturday, 7 July, 2012 11:11:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] So, That's it for Thunderbird
> 
> On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Lee H. Marzke <lee@marzke.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > Not wanting to put all my business info in Google,  I've now
> > switched to
> > Zimbra.  That has it's own client or IMAP - and the native Android
> > apps
> > work with everything.
> 
> Is there any way to do native android with the Open-source edition of
> Zimbra yet?  Their features page seems to suggest that Android might
> be second class, and it is only available if you fork out $840 for
> their network edition.

I long ago decided it was too much work to keep spam assassin,  a database
and mailserver etc up to date just for a few mailboxes so I use a hosting
company for my primary email  even though I have plenty of resources and bandwidth
to do it locally.   But then I use it for my consulting business and
personal use.    I also have a standalone open-source
copy of Zimbra locally that I'm experimenting with - not sure what
exactly the limits are with that as the sync for iPHone and Android
are different.   Contact me off-list if you want to evaluate either one.

There was another solution named "SoGo" mentioned in my talk that
uses Thunderbird and it's Calendar ,  but it never seemed to fully work
with Android either and they seemed to be selling support just to get
it working.  But I tested a year ago,  not sure it's current state.

http://plone.4aero.com/Members/lmarzke/mobilecollab/index_html/presentation_view




Lee




> 
> For a small business that isn't a bad deal (collaboration/etc for up
> to 15 people), but if all you need is an email client/server for
> personal use that seems a bit steep.
> 
> I'd definitely prefer to ditch proprietary cloud services like Gmail,
> but it just seems like nothing else is comparable yet.
> 
> Rich
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