[ale] Zimbra

[Chris Fowler]

I have one more question.

I extensively use .procmail on my mail server to sort my mail into 
~/Mail for IMAP.   Some people use Outlook.   For me, I have to use vim 
to edit .procmailrc and add the rule.  I also have one unique setup.

For some boxes I've run a perl program, via procmailrc, that sends me an 
email to my main INBOX that says 'CHECK XXXX MAILBOX'. Why?  In 2009 
when I bought an iTouch the mail program would not check all my 
mailboxes for new messages.   I seriously needed that.  That is how I 
notified myself.  Even now that I'm all Android I still use that method 
with K-9.

Is there any possibility to do server size sorting with Zimbra? What 
about that notification I created?

I think Zimbra uses a mysql database for everything.  OpenWebMail deals 
with ~/Mail folders in the users home.   It is just a php app.

The setup I've used for almost 15 years is good, but lacks Vacation 
Notification (server side), and calendar sharing.   My users use 
Outlook.  I use Thunderbird and claws-mail.  I have Vacation 
Notification only because I wrote a perl program that runs in 
.procmailrc that I turn on and off via an email to myself.  It then 
tracks emails in from Customers and replies back to them with the 
message I've configured.   Like I said,  I do a lot with my .procmailrc. :)

Oops, OMT.  We also store all incoming email as a backup in each users 
directory.  We've had problems with people deleting email and asking for 
it back so in .procmailrc we save a copy of each one before we process 
it through rules.

I think Zimbra Community will do all I want.


On 08/08/2014 03:22 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:
> Anyone here use Zimbra well enough to answer my question?
>
> Currently I use fetchmail on user accounts to grab mail from 
> Earthlink, process through procmail, then Spamassassin and ClamAV and 
> finally written to /var/spool/mail/<USER>.  I have multiple domains on 
> this system.  If mail is sent to the asme user at another domain then 
> it is send directly to this system. Sendmail catches it then it goes 
> through procmail.
>
> These users use Outlook via IMAPS to access this via Dovecot and we 
> use a 3rd party mail relay service to send mail out.
>
> The users are asking for Exchange type features.  Zimbra comes to 
> mind.   If I loaded Zimbra on this system would it replace Sendmail?  
> Can it figure out that the source is /var/spool/mail/<user> or could I 
> modify each users .procmailrc in their home to insert the email in 
> Zimbra?
>
> What I want to do is setup a test host at Rackspace Cloud.  Use 
> fetchmail on it to retrieve a user's mail from our mail system. Load 
> Zimbra on it and see how it works.
>
> The users can then access Zimbra via Outlook, Zimbra Desktop, or the 
> Web Interface.  I've been using OpenMail, but have not updated it 
> since 2008!
>
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
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