[SLL] Groupware servers

[Jarod Wilson]

On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 19:18 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 19:07 -0800, Derek Simkowiak wrote:
> >     Does Zimbra also offer resource booking, i.e., can I schedule a 
> > meeting in Conference Room A, and then have the meeting invite sent to 
> > every invitee PLUS have Conference Room A show up as "unavailable" to 
> > co-workers (during my meeting time slot)?
> 
> I honestly don't know.  I work remotely so I rarely if ever deal with
> resource booking.

I'm reasonably sure that does work now.

> >     Also, what is your experience on the speed / responsiveness of 
> > Zimbra?  Compared to vanilla Courier IMAP, I found it to be practically 
> > unusable (10x or 20x slower, when running on old, weak hardware with 
> > 512MB RAM).
> 
> At times it's very slow, but then again we have one corporate zimbra
> server in a colo center in Phoenix,

I believe there are actually two frontend servers, take a look at what
gets spit back for mail.corp, then look up those two IP addresses...

> and I'm here in WA using a vpn to
> Boston, to then get to the Zimbra server in PHX.  It's not the most
> efficient setup.

It still frequently blows chunks cutting out the vpn to Boston portion
of the equation (I'm *in* the Boston office). If there's ever any kind
of connectivity issues with the Phoenix colo that cause mail to get
backed up, it takes quite some time for things to catch up, and any new
outgoing mail takes several hours to make its way out to the world.

I ran zimbra at home for a while myself too, and got sick of the sloth.
And I *wasn't* running on slow hardware -- pretty sure this was on my
dual 2.6GHz Opteron w/4GB of RAM. I got sick of it, and went back to my
tried and true dovecot/postfix/maia mailguard setup, and haven't looked
back (I never used the groupware features anyway). When they announced
we were rolling out zimbra for our corporate mail server, I was a little
less than enthused, and I've not seen anything from it that makes me
think it was a good idea for any of us engineering types. For sales guys
who want Exchange type stuff, I'm sure its an improvement over the cyrus
setup it replaced. But otherwise, I think it blows.

--jarod