Monday, August 3, 2009

#38: Free Enterprise Email Server

For every business, email is very important. And if you want to be taken seriously, you should have an email address that reflects your company's name. Imagine trying to make a million dollar deal and you are still using those public email services such as yahoo, gmail or hotmail?

Well why not try Zimbra, a a free Enterprise-Grade email server that rivals the features of say Microsoft Exchange Server.

I have been using zimbra as our company's email server and it's been very reliable. It's features are just awesome. You can have multiple domains in just one install, it relies heavily on ajax. Thus makes it look like a desktop application.

There's so many features of zimbra but personally I like the way you can share email addresses with a group (say your technical support department) and able share documents and calendars.

Installation is quite easy. I've installed zimbra on CentOS (community version of RedHat Linux) using this howto, and I was up an running in 20 minutes.

Zimbra was since bought by yahoo, fortunately they still maintain a free version of the program.

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