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Install a Mail Server with Antivirus and Antispam in 15 Minutes This article illustrates a situation where you need to set up your own mail server (be it your home mail server, or a small office one). It actually shows that, if using an integrated service mail server, anyone can do the job, all in a matter of minutes. AXIGEN Mail Server, the solution chosen for this example, can send and receive e-mails securely via "mydomain.com" and is able to retrieve them in a WebMail interface - this means that it includes all mail services needed for a fully functional mail server (SMTP, IMAP, POP3, WebMail, WebAdmin).
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Hmm... Let's see...
AXIGEN - Office Edition
Licensing - Free (registration required! - why?)
Mailboxes - max. 9
Domains - only 1
Support - Free for 1 year
Webmail Client - Rather schematic
Basic search - Yes
Advanced search - Unknown
Tags - Unknown
Sharing - Unknown
Calendar - Unknown
Conversations - Unknown
Resource/Group scheduling - Unknown
Documents - Unknown
ZIMBRA - Open Source Edition
Licensing - Free (under open source licensing terms)
Mailboxes - unlimited
Domains - Unlimited
Support - Community based
Webmail Client - Outlook like
Basic search - Yes
Advanced search - Rich "Search Builder" interface for creating and saving advanced, multi-condition searches
Tags - Ability to quickly categorize items by attaching "Tags" with user-defined names and colors
Sharing - Ability to share contacts, calendars, and documents with internal or external users
Calendar - AJAX Calendar - Rich, interactive Calendar functionality using only a web browser
Conversations - Organized views of message threads to streamline user Inbox management
Resource/Group Scheduling - Ability to schedule meetings, book resources, and evaluate and manage free/busy information
Documents - AJAX Documents - Ability to create rich web-based documents and wikis
My point is...
Maybe this is not the best place to promote a commercial product.
you have a valid point about paid and opensource softwares and I personally think that if you are using even an open source software for your commercial use you should give credit to the programmer on your site or donate some money to him to encourage him. Also big companies or people who have critical applications have a tendency to choose commercial softwares due to its CONFIRMED technical support as they paid for it. For open source you are dependant on the community when you are stuck somewhere. so I will still give credit to the author to leave good resource for those who may want to use the commercial one but I will also recommend him to post the similar article based on the opensource one.
hmm, bronto if you occasionally got your head out of the sand it might have helped you . Not everything revolves around you, open source and one user installations. Zimbra is a fine product - but it's geared towards slightly different audience. The problem with Zimbra is that they offer open-source solution that is useful for either really cheap company or for a small company ( or personal use). The Opensource Edition should actually be renamed as Free Truncated Version Of Our Product. Considering, that I recently did a lot of comparisons between different mail server solutions, here are a few major differences between zimbra, scalix & axigen: PRICE, support, antivirus, etc. I actually compared enterprise editions for all major mail servers out there looking for an alternative to Exchange server. I'm a big proponent of opensource ( we are a debian and ruby shop), but there is such thing as business requirements, and axigen does better in these: * there is no Premium vs Regular account( yes I'm looking at you scalix) * axigen works with AVG ( our antivirus of choice, since we already invested in it.) * zimbra is geared towards web based approach, and axigen supports web interface as a feature * unfortunately I have to deal with 50% Outlook users (out of 300 email accounts, which means I need a lot of outlook connectors, for people that are not heavy email users), some mobile users and thankfully some Thunderbird installations * axigen is cheaper once you break the threshold of about 70 users. ( zimbra ~ 2800 for 100 users, Axigen is around 1500 to 2000, depending on add-ons, scalix is even more expensive, plus axigen's & scalix licenses are perepetual, with zimbra you would have to pay per year) * has better integration with ldap. I'm not trying to say that one is better than the other, since it all depends on a particular use case. If your business requirements require a web based solution, - like you working for a company that has users all over the world, then may be zimbra is a better solution, or may be dovecot, or may be you should use Gmail for Business or something. I don't know - it depends on situation. So I guess what I'm trying to say is, that I'm tired of hearing little script kiddies blackmouth good products, when they have no idea what the hell they are talking about.