<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>I'm fond of it. I've got one server running 7.x and another running 8.x. I don't have any commercial servers out any more.<br><br>Backups? Oh, yeah... I should do that more than annually. Basically, I shut the machine down and rsync the vmdk's to another box.<br><br>I am a bad SA.<br><br><div><span name="x"></span>--<br>David L. Willson<br>Teacher, Engineer, Evangelist<br>RHCE+Satellite CCAH Network+ A+ Linux+ LPIC-1 Ubuntu_CP SUSE_CLA<br>Mobile 720-333-LANS(5267)<br>http://sofree.us<br><br>This is a good time for a r3VOLution.<span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div dir="ltr">I used Zimbra years ago and it was quite nice. I liked that it was all standard stuff just glued together. Is their community offering still decent? I remember that it couldn't do hot backups when I was using it and ended up writing a script to approximate that (hey! It's still in their wiki! <a href="https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Open_Source_Edition_Backup_Procedure" target="_blank">https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Open_Source_Edition_Backup_Procedure</a>) and they were making some questionable business choices regarding open source, but then I changed jobs and haven't looked at it since.<div><br></div><div>QH<br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 4:18 PM, David L. Willson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:DLWillson@thegeek.nu" target="_blank">DLWillson@thegeek.nu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I like Zimbra, but it has a lot of the things you don't care about, like a web-interface.<br>
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If I just wanted something basic... I guess I might go back to UW-IMAP and SquirrelMail, but really, I haven't used anything but Zimbra in many years.<br>
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I'd be happy to add your friend's domain to my basement host for a short time, as long as he's not spamming, and realizes that ... well, it's a basement host, with all that that entails.<br>
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--<br>
David L. Willson<br>
Teacher, Engineer, Evangelist<br>
RHCE+Satellite CCAH Network+ A+ Linux+ LPIC-1 Ubuntu_CP SUSE_CLA<br>
Mobile 720-333-LANS(5267)<br>
<a href="http://sofree.us" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://sofree.us</a><br>
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This is a good time for a r3VOLution.<br>
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> How possible is this? I've been trying to help a friend who needs to<br>
> replace the Mac server he set up in 2003 or so. (And is well<br>
> unsupported now, with no upgrade path).<br>
><br>
> Despite using multiple guides on the net, getting the software<br>
> installed is a pain, the config files always seam to be somewhere<br>
> else, and even after finally getting it setup, the server can only<br>
> email to itself.<br>
> Our most recent attempt was with iRedMail.<br>
><br>
> So the time has come to asking you enthusiasts on which expert to pay<br>
> to get us setup and once again have a generally ignorable system<br>
> that just works.<br>
><br>
> He's willing to try hosted email, as a temporary solution, pricing<br>
> would be per domain not per user. Actual volume of email I don't<br>
> know at this time. Local is required, the Denver-Boulder area.<br>
><br>
> He needs to be able to add (or I assume remove) users/email addresses<br>
> at will, with some type of GUI interface (web okay).<br>
> He wants to add an additional domain or two.<br>
> SSH access so that backup is an easy "ZFS send" command. Which is a<br>
> preference for FreeBSD over other options. Although being set as a<br>
> cron on the send side is preferred over a cron pull from the backup<br>
> location.<br>
> Webmail is unnecessary. IMAP is required.<br>
> Having the mail server within its own VM making moving it in the<br>
> future easier, is a plus.<br>
><br>
> We already have a location with port 25 unblocked, that had been<br>
> working fine for years until email providers started up-ing their<br>
> security near the beginning of the year (and now quota limit<br>
> warnings from a nearly-full drive). He has control over the DNS<br>
> records and can move the MX as needed.<br>
><br>
> All the above, and I feel I'm missing something obvious.<br>
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