Mail Server

Zimbra is a market leading product and strongly recommended by LinuxIT as we partner with Zimbra to provide an Open-Source server software option for email and collaboration - email, group calendar, contacts, instant messaging, file storage and web document management.

The Zimbra email and calendar server is available for Linux, Mac OS X and virtualization platforms.

Zimbra syncs to smartphones (iPhone, BlackBerry) and desktop clients like Outlook and Thunderbird. Zimbra also features archiving and discovery for compliance and can be deployed on-premise or as a hosted email solution.

Zimbra Server is the core of Zimbra Collaboration Suite; it is designed with an extremely stable and modular architecture using proven open source technologies. Zimbra Server provides tremendous flexibility because it contains all of the components necessary to run your Linux or Mac based email and calendar messaging infrastructure out of the box; it also connects to just about every popular end-user client through the many standard protocols it supports.

Key Benefits of the Zimbra Server comprise:

• Fast, easy install - all dependent components are packaged together in one simple installer
• Proven open source - built with Linux, Apache Jetty , Postfix, MySQL, OpenLDAP, Lucene
• Uses industry standard open protocols - SMTP, LMTP, SOAP, XML, IMAP, POP, iCal, CalDAV
• Efficiency and horizontal scalability - Zimbra server is 3-5x faster than comparable systems, plus each server has its own data store, message store, and set mailbox accounts. To scale simply add more servers.
• Software as a Service (SaaS) ready - Multi-tenancy, delegated admin, runs on commodity hardware

Easy to administer and maintain - familiar open source components, robust migration tools, key feature advantages like real-time backup and restore; intuitive Ajax-based web Admin Console

Kerio Connect is an award-winning alternative to Microsoft Exchange for small and medium-sized businesses, providing email, contact, and calendar management through desktop email clients, web browsers, and smartphones.

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LinuxIT has many year's of experience in partnering with Kerio Technologies UK to provide Kerio MailServer, a popular cross-platform messaging product.

Kerio MailServer is the sophisticated answer for many smaller organisations looking for an alternative to more expensive options from Microsoft and others, and represents a new generation of mail servers designed with advanced features to help fight spam and viruses.

For those looking for a economic yet powerful mailserver solution then we have no hesitation in recommending Kerio.

For businesses, service providers, and email hosters looking to reduce email costs while still providing full Outlook support, the various editions of Scalix provide an extremely stable, Linux-based groupware server that can be used alongside, or instead of, Exchange. As the leaders in Linux LinuxIT recommends Scalix. 

We like Scalix ActiveSync, a server-side implementation of Microsoft's ActiveSync protocol, providing for push email and wireless calendar and contact synchronisation with a wide variety of devices, ranging from Apple's iPhone over Symbian-based devices from Nokia and Sony-Ericsson to PDAs and SmartPhones running Windows Mobile 2005 and higher.

For Enterprises and Businesses feeling pressure to reduce IT spending or perhaps move away from Microsoft server proliferation, Scalix is a Linux-based groupware server with a decade’s long heritage that mimics Exchange via standard and proprietary interfaces. Scalix is best known for its excellent Outlook user experience.

With Scalix you can:

• Provide the Outlook experience your users expect with push email, PIM, group calendaring, free/busy services, public folders, delegation, and more.
• Reduce your email budget with cost-effective licensing and low-cost server operating system choices like CentOS.
• Keep email flowing and your pager quiet with a stable infrastructure that uses compute and operational resources efficiently.
• Integrate with in-house custom applications with an open platform and API's.

Paid for - Sophos offers protection with high-capacity, high-availability gateway and groupware security and data protection that stops malware, spam and data loss. Sophos eliminates more than 99% of spam with Sender Genotype and Live Anti-Spam in-the-cloud updates, protects sensitive data with integrated SPX email encryption and DLP, blocks evolving and new zero-day threats with real-time malware scanning, eliminates or automates regular tasks with intuitive management consoles, protects the entire email infrastructure, from gateway to workgroup and includes both hardware appliance and software only options.