[wellylug] Migrating Windows 2003/Exchange 2003 To Linux

[David Harrison]

On 18/07/2006, at 5:29 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote:

> I take it from this that you have not run the Outlook integrated  
> version
> at all?  If you have I would love to hear from you (off-list, or on)
> with some detail before I plunge into implementing the same myself.

No I have not tried the Outlook connector for two reasons:
1. Cost - Per year Zimbra is a lot of money and only makes sense in  
largish organisations.
2. And more importantly I don't use Outlook :-)

I run a mixture of OSX/Linux so thankfully I don't have to use  
Outlook (which I consider probably the worst email client on the  
market today).
I can tell you that Zimbra works fine with OSX Mail, Thunderbird and  
Evolution. They do provide ics (iCal) support for calendaring in the  
open source version which is all I need.

I've had a few email and forum discussions with Zimbra's support guy  
Kevin and he's very reasonable.
They also have a decent and active forum just for the Outlook Connector:
http://www.zimbra.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=19
Unfortunately they are steadfastly resisting all requests to sell the  
connector in small quantities (maybe out of fear it gets reverse  
engineered?).


David