Scalix: What do we really think?

[dave-lew99]

'llo all,

Recently our requirements at work changed somewhat - at the moment we simply use a postfix(+clamav, spamassassin, amavisd-new)/dovecot imap setup and all it does is mail - it's been perfectly reliable and runs on NetBSD with LDAP accounts.

Now we have a need for a more integrated calandering solution as well as mail - i sucessfully setup iCal's on our WebDAV server and used the thunderbird lightning plugin which seemed to work well enough, but i also had a look at scalix.

In my mind it's not as good as people make it out to be - i found it quite lacking - sure it has a nice web interface and some user management but i couldn't see anything in there for configuring the anti spam etc stuff.

Compared to exchange it's nowhere near as close - but then exchange isn't free.

Is anyone running it day to day? How do you find it?

I have seen (thank goodness) that you can fairly easily change the MTA from sendmail to postfix, so that should allow me to slip in all of our current anti-spam setup at least.

I may just do the iCal/WebDAV route - certainly easier in our current setup, and theres no need for it to be accessable outside of our LAN/VPNs

 

[R4z0r]

Not exactly what you're asking but have you looked at Google Apps. It's by far and away the fastest and most complete email system I've used (And I've used a lot). You wouldn't have to worry about space, downtime, spam or any of *** headaches traditionaly associated with running a mail system.

Last time I looked, costs were pretty competetive as well.