MrMail shutting down free zimbra service

ccl1 · 30 Dec 2014, 12:56 AM

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.

mf1941 · 30 Dec 2014, 05:11 AM

http://omail.it is free.

randian · 30 Dec 2014, 05:23 AM

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

mf1941 · 30 Dec 2014, 05:26 AM

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

randian · 30 Dec 2014, 05:27 AM

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Originally Posted by mf1941

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.

mf1941 · 30 Dec 2014, 05:33 AM

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

cptlo306 · 30 Dec 2014, 06:28 AM

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Originally Posted by randian

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

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.

randian · 30 Dec 2014, 06:47 AM

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Originally Posted by cptlo306

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.

cptlo306 · 30 Dec 2014, 07:02 AM

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Originally Posted by randian

$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.

ccl1 · 30 Dec 2014, 07:23 AM

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Originally Posted by mf1941

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

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

randian · 30 Dec 2014, 07:24 AM

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Originally Posted by ccl1

Also missing was when this transfer was actually suppose to take place.

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

KevinS · 30 Dec 2014, 01:38 PM

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.

--
Kevin

philtec · 30 Dec 2014, 09:16 PM

http://zimbra.free.fr/

ccl1 · 1 Jan 2015, 02:43 AM

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.

cptlo306 · 1 Jan 2015, 02:52 AM

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Originally Posted by ccl1

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.

30 Dec 2014, 12:56 AM	#1
ccl1 Essential Contributor Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 236	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. Last edited by ccl1 : 30 Dec 2014 at 01:09 AM.

30 Dec 2014, 01:38 PM	#12
KevinS Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Bellingham, WA, US Posts: 129	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. -- Kevin

30 Dec 2014, 09:16 PM	#13
philtec Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: YouEssAey Posts: 145	Free French Zimbra Account http://zimbra.free.fr/

30 Dec 2014, 05:11 AM	#2
mf1941 Essential Contributor Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Sound Beach, N.Y. Posts: 261	http://omail.it is free.

30 Dec 2014, 05:23 AM	#3
randian Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Jan 2014 Posts: 561	60 Euro a year is crazy expensive. No way I'm keeping my account.

30 Dec 2014, 05:26 AM	#4
mf1941 Essential Contributor Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Sound Beach, N.Y. Posts: 261	That 'mrmail" is quite a hot potato, I had a free account there, It went from England to Canada & now is parked in Switzerland.

30 Dec 2014, 05:33 AM	#6
mf1941 Essential Contributor Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Sound Beach, N.Y. Posts: 261	I used to have a ZIMBRA account here, They are very reasonable. https://www.prxy.com/hosting.php?spt=9

1 Jan 2015, 02:43 AM	#14
ccl1 Essential Contributor Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 236	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.