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Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon Nov 4 12:13:33 EST 2013


JD <jdp at algoloma.com> writes:

> On 11/04/2013 10:02 AM, Michael Trausch wrote:
>> I had looked at Zimbra once upon a time. Seemed... Heavy. Is it worthwhile?
>> Anything I can get from it that I can't do with postfix , dovecot and sieve?
>
> Zimbra is HEAVY. If there were another Linux solution with enterprise
> calendaring and not butt ugly, I would deploy it.  Zimbra wants 1.5G
> of RAM + 2 vCPUs for a trivial deployment. It is also
> stupid-stupid-stupid about /etc/hosts and DNS requirements that simply
> ARE NOT required for a working email system.  Even with those things,

Then try Zarafa instead; it's certainly less heavyweight.  I have it
running in 768M of RAM with a single CPU and it works great for me (at
least the Calendaring and Contacts; I don't use it for email).

-derek
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