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Thunderbird v/s Zimbra v/s Gmail (yes, I know its not Open Source!)?

By David Duncan - Mar. 04, 2008

I, unfortunately, like most of the workforce, have been on Outlook for longer than I can remember (actually there was a brief, blissful moment way back when I was using Lotus Notes!).

Just wanted to get your thoughts on the advantages of deploying Thunderbird v/s Zimbra for a small company (20-25 people). Google Apps is also an interesting (free) service that we are evaluating cause gmail comes bundled in there for free.

Thoughts/Suggestions?


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  1. By an anonymous user on Mar. 04, 2008

    Hi,

    We have used Outlook in our office of 30 users for many years. Two years ago we invested in Zimbra hoping that it would be our bridge to freedom from Outlook. It has been a wonderful tool for email and collaboration. Zimbra provides all the security and encryption that our firm needed for internal and external communication. However, we are not able to completely free ourselves from Outlook because Zimbra (v5) does not handle Task Assignment, Task Management and reporting which are critical to effective delegation.


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  2. By an anonymous user on Mar. 04, 2008

    Zimbra is the way to go with all the bells and whistles you want in an exchange server and migration from Outlook Exchange server is pretty straightforward. BUT that, too, might degenerate in Outlook pretty quickly ;)


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  3. By an anonymous user on Mar. 04, 2008

    as long as you dont have to answer to big money backers and you don't use blackberry Zimbra is a great alternative


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  4. By an anonymous user on Mar. 04, 2008

    Well, it really depends on what you are trying to achieve. Do you want to give users web access? Thunderbird is just the client, so you will still need to decide where to plug in.


    Google has a great service. Have used it for several projects. Easy to set up and you can then use your own IMAP or POP client.


    For zero headache, I would recommend going with Google Apps (if you can), and then with Thunderbird on the client side.


    If you need a mail server per se, then you can look at sendmail/qmail or Zimbra or something...


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  5. By an anonymous user on Mar. 04, 2008

    I'm not a big MS fan but, I, too have been using it for the longest time and don't really see any issues with it. It works. So, just curious, why would you want to switch??


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  6. By an anonymous user on Oct. 29, 2008

    I say use google apps with Zimbra. Zimbra has a email client that integrates itself with google email just great. I use it as an IMAP client for google email and it's great. And best of all its all free. And you get all the collaborative tools that Zimbra offers. I love Zimbra. It's just as good as Outlook and way better than Outlook Web.


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