Feedback, and a quick question
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 1:29 pm
Hey All,
Thought I would leave some brief feedback, as well as a question I have, that I can't find an answer for (and doesn't really seem to fit into any of the other forums).
First of all, I LOVE Zimbra. I've tried to set up mail servers on Linux in the past, and I've always had a really hard time with it. I love that the open source edition gives me a mail server in a single package, that can be deployed easily. Thank you for making an open source version available for free! I think you're doing a great job, keep up the great work!
On bit of negative feedback that I will provide (Which is really no fault of your's) is that during the initial setup, during the prerequisites check, there is no check for any syslog daemons. This has never been a problem for me in the past, but a new VPS provider that I switched to rolls out minimal server images, and I ran into a small issue setting up my server. Basically when no syslog daemon is installed, the installer runs, but it seems to have some strange issues with the cron scheduler (for some reason). The cron jobs don't run, and the server crashed after a day or so. This was easily fixed (for me) by installing the rsyslog package prior to installing Zimbra.
I'm a little curious about the new release notes for Zimbra 8.5 BETA3. One of the new features mentions "Improved ActiveSync performance and scalability". I thought that activesync was only available for the network edition?
In any event, you make an excellent product. Keep up the great work!
Cheers,
Danny
Thought I would leave some brief feedback, as well as a question I have, that I can't find an answer for (and doesn't really seem to fit into any of the other forums).
First of all, I LOVE Zimbra. I've tried to set up mail servers on Linux in the past, and I've always had a really hard time with it. I love that the open source edition gives me a mail server in a single package, that can be deployed easily. Thank you for making an open source version available for free! I think you're doing a great job, keep up the great work!
On bit of negative feedback that I will provide (Which is really no fault of your's) is that during the initial setup, during the prerequisites check, there is no check for any syslog daemons. This has never been a problem for me in the past, but a new VPS provider that I switched to rolls out minimal server images, and I ran into a small issue setting up my server. Basically when no syslog daemon is installed, the installer runs, but it seems to have some strange issues with the cron scheduler (for some reason). The cron jobs don't run, and the server crashed after a day or so. This was easily fixed (for me) by installing the rsyslog package prior to installing Zimbra.
I'm a little curious about the new release notes for Zimbra 8.5 BETA3. One of the new features mentions "Improved ActiveSync performance and scalability". I thought that activesync was only available for the network edition?
In any event, you make an excellent product. Keep up the great work!
Cheers,
Danny