Synacor no longer provides free FOSS binaries. Anyone who wants Zimbra 10.1 on Ubuntu downloads a community tarball: maldua/zimbra-foss or bTactic builds. Below: a clean installation on Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 LTS, DNS, install.sh, and the first zmcontrol status. This is not an official Synacor build; it is the tarball the forum uses when the … Read more
Zimbra is the Ajax groupware platform that wanted to be Exchange for Linux. It began as LiquidSys in 2003, became Zimbra Inc. on July 26, 2005, and took its name from the Talking Heads song I Zimbra. In September 2007, Yahoo bought it for US$ 350 million. Then came VMware, Telligent, and Synacor. On the 31 … Read more
With a new webmail interface It looks like Synacor, Zimbra’s owner at this point, is doing a great job — unlike some companies that bought the software and did practically nothing. Synacor is driving an evolution … Read more
Zimbra remains the groupware platform closest to an Exchange running on Linux: email, shared calendars, contacts, tasks, and webmail in the same appliance. And it remains heavy — Java, two HTTP servers, and a stack of processes … Read more
