NEW POLL: What OS port should be next?

[fisch09]

my 2cents:

gentoo: As much as I would like to see a Zimbra NE version for gentoo I can not image how do you want to support it. Where do you start the troubleshooting - asking for the USE flags used to build the gcc?

RHES / SLES: there is no need to argue about SLES or RHES its an "AND" because these are the only real Enterprise Linux and it just depends on the geographical location which is number 1 or 2.

debian / ubuntu LTS: I think this are the important distributions for small business that have a Linux environment and need something "like" MS Exchange and don't want to have a MS server.

(just my experience from work as support agent for one of biggest server vendors)

Cheers
Andre

[greenrenault]

According to this bug, SLES10 support is scheduled for 4.52. http://bugzilla.zimbra.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10462

This is GREAT news!

[sriram_n83]

People it would be great to build Zimbra on windows. This would definetly addon to worry MS. MTA can be IIS SMTP server instead of postfix. Other than that i guess everything can be made to work on windows and some already are there openldap, clam, dspam/spamassasin etc. Well not sure how good and possible is this idea but definetly sounds good.

[JoshuaPrismon]

Originally Posted by sriram_n83

People it would be great to build Zimbra on windows. This would definetly addon to worry MS. MTA can be IIS SMTP server instead of postfix. Other than that i guess everything can be made to work on windows and some already are there openldap, clam, dspam/spamassasin etc. Well not sure how good and possible is this idea but definetly sounds good.

Postfix actually, AFAIK, is not portable to Windows (and that's a big problem).

[sriram_n83]

Originally Posted by lostknight

Postfix actually, AFAIK, is not portable to Windows (and that's a big problem).

GUYS i guess it would be great to have Zimbra's own MTA supporting the highest ever concurrency built on any messaging system and yes platform independent. I don't think it should take much time for Zimbra developers to do this looking at the pace at which features are being added. It would probably be my best project.

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by sriram_n83

I don't think it should take much time for Zimbra developers to do this looking at the pace at which features are being added.

Yes, the developers are a lazy bunch - they sit around all day drinking coffee just thinking of the next feature they can add to Zimbra. Doesn't the pace of feature improvements indicate they might not have the time for that sort of project? This is open source, you could always try porting the project yourself.

[JoshuaPrismon]

Originally Posted by sriram_n83

GUYS i guess it would be great to have Zimbra's own MTA supporting the highest ever concurrency built on any messaging system and yes platform independent. I don't think it should take much time for Zimbra developers to do this looking at the pace at which features are being added. It would probably be my best project.

MTA's are a bitch. Everyone significantly under scopes them when they write them, and then discover that their effort is a bit like using a BB-gun to go after a Elephant charging at you.

It's a lot easier now that UUCP style ! routing has gone away, but trust me, it's a hard problem. (I spent a lot of time climbing back through sendmail internals while I was a Network consultant... doing LDAP intergration the hard way ;-)

[sriram_n83]

Originally Posted by phoenix

Yes, the developers are a lazy bunch - they sit around all day drinking coffee just thinking of the next feature they can add to Zimbra. Doesn't the pace of feature improvements indicate they might not have the time for that sort of project? This is open source, you could always try porting the project yourself.

Well so wat? This can also be OpenSourced. I dont think opensource only means Linux. Application can always be opensourced in windows. Porting it myself probably will take lotsssssssssssssss of time and i am not a windows developer

[dkarp]

Originally Posted by sriram_n83

Well so wat? This can also be OpenSourced. I dont think opensource only means Linux. Application can always be opensourced in windows. Porting it myself probably will take lotsssssssssssssss of time and i am not a windows developer

postfix is open-source. And yet there is no postfix port for Windows.

If someone were to port postfix to Windows, we'd seriously consider porting Zimbra to Windows. But we're absolutely the wrong folks to write a Windows postfix port.

(And we're not about to write our own MTA just so that we can run on Windows. There are plenty of good MTAs out there. Port postfix to Windows, and then we can talk.)

[sriram_n83]

Originally Posted by dkarp

postfix is open-source. And yet there is no postfix port for Windows.

If someone were to port postfix to Windows, we'd seriously consider porting Zimbra to Windows. But we're absolutely the wrong folks to write a Windows postfix port.

(And we're not about to write our own MTA just so that we can run on Windows. There are plenty of good MTAs out there. Port postfix to Windows, and then we can talk.)

Suggestion is that, don't make it so much dependent on the MTA. I understand there is a great community doing amazing stuffs on Opensource MTA's like Postfix , but if the build is made such that it works on any platform, any popular OS (Already there with Linux/mac) makes it a lot more flexible and revenue oriented toooo. watever zimbra is doing is just amazing. Qmail is my personal favorite on the MTA front.