MrMail shutting down free zimbra service
 

Got this email this morning.

"Dear customers, the ownership of MrMail is changed to following company: Tidata.net SA Gewerbestrasse 5 6330 Cham Switzerland The Zimbra professional e-mail Service is expensive in maintenance. For this reason the current Service "Free Mailboxes" will be expire and be converted to a payed Basic Account. https://www.mrmail.com/zimbra-packages Best regards and Happy New Year MrMail"

does anyone know of other zimbra services? Looking at their plans, the cheapest is 4.99eu, which is probably like $8us a month. Considering I am using less than 300mb for storage, that is way too much for my needs.

http://omail.it is free.

60 Euro a year is crazy expensive. No way I'm keeping my account.

That 'mrmail" is quite a hot potato, I had a free account there, It went from England to Canada & now is parked in Switzerland.

Wouldn't be a hot potato if their prices were reasonable. No wonder their maintenance is "expensive", they probably have too few paying customers.

I used to have a ZIMBRA account here, They are very reasonable.
https://www.prxy.com/hosting.php?spt=9

Their paid plans were cheaper a while back. I had a paid account with them at one point but have a few reliability issues.

Another option for paid accounts is www.zmailcloud.com.

$60/user/year is pretty expensive. A Fastmail Enhanced or Runbox Mini account looks like a much better deal.

That may be true but Zmailcloud gives you Activesync and more space than a Fastmail Enhanced account.

yeah, I'm not liking that either. Customer support went way down after it got sold to whomever in canada.

Oddly, I have 3 rarely used accounts, and only one account got that notification. Also missing was when this transfer was actually suppose to take place, and when the free account would be discontinued. I hope they at least give 30 days leeway.

They also bumped up the price significantly. First tier used to be like 2eu a month or something

I didn't receive any notice either. My mrmail account didn't get the invoice.

slightly more info at https://www.mrmail.com
 

Posted at https://www.mrmail.com:

"Last News: Free Accounts will be terminated on 31.01.2015
Since 1996, provide a clean of adververtising and professional Zimbra Services, for this reason we terminate the “Free Accounts” until 31.01.2015. There can be converted to Basic-Zimbra Account with a Special Discount for 1 year."

No mention of the discount. The regular prices are really steep. Perhaps they do not want to retain current customers. Tidata.net SA is an ISP. Maybe they intend the service for their ISP customers.

They are sharing a calendar. The entries are written in Italian.

This has always been a strange email implementation. Several people share their contacts, calendars, breifcases, etc to the world. I don't know why they want to share their stuff with me ;-) Even the previous owner's (Oliver Bross) stuff is shared out.

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Kevin

Free French Zimbra Account
 

there seems to be an opensource version of zimbra http://www.zimbra.com/downloads/zimb...on-open-source
I would be interested in installing that for personal use... but not sure how. I contacted my hosting company for help, and they told me it would take up too much resources, which seems strange b/c it would just be for 3 accounts. I guess I would need a dedicated server or something instead of shared hosting.

I believe it does require a server and can't run on shared hosting. And reportedly it requires heavy resources even with a small number of users. I attempted to install it on a clean Linux virtual server with 2GB ram a couple times and could never get it running.