I miss Zimbra

Exchange is overly complicated. It's a system designed by committee. It's not that bad, and it has tons of great features, and when it works it's amazing. But when it goes wrong, it goes very VERY wrong.

I miss Zimbra and it's ability to run from a single box and support hundreds of users with zero issue.

If it hadn't been for the crazy timezone issues that were affecting every major calendaring system at the time, we probably would have stayed with it.

I'd definitely use Zimbra again though, and encourage anyone setting up a new startup to give it a shot.

Zimbra Toaster is Awesome!

The Zimbra toaster is awesome. It lets you launch zimbra to send an e-mail from mailto links in web pages. This saves me so much hastle. Plus it polls for new e-mail all the time and loads outlook style toaster popups from the task tray.

Go Zimbra Go!

I will be truly happy when the Toaster can check for installed software versions, like the current version of Outlook, as well as any relevant windows MAPI files, and the Zimbra Connector for Outlook version. This way, support personnel can get a snapshot of what's going on in the system, which would be very helpful for troubleshooting problems with the connector.

Zimbra Toaster Announcement

Zimbra Aquired by Yahoo

Congrats to the Zimbra team! All your hard work has paid off.

http://www.zimbra.com/blog/archives/2007/09/yahoo_acquires_zimbra.html

Zimbra 4.5.5 is out, fixed outlook outbox bug

Zimbra 4.5.5 is out, which includes a long awaited fix to their outlook connector. I would every few weeks or so, get a user coming to me to complain that there was a message stuck in their outbox.

They finally fixed it to where large messages that fail to be delivered are not retried, giving the user a chance to delete them from their outbox and get outgoing mail processing back on track.

Zimbra 4.5.5 release notes

Now, if i can find out where these random "There was an error processing your message, please contact your System Administrator" messages are coming from, i'll be all set.

I've been working very hard to try and become more involved in the Zimbra forums and bugzilla, even though we're probably going to be migrating to Exchange for other reasons a bit down the pipe.