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(@diito)
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I've been in going through the process of migrating from Zimbra to Carbonio CE this last week or so. I put it off because Zimbra just worked and could see Carbonio was still very much a work in progress.  In doing so I've encountered more bugs, major usability issues, bad documentation, and other issues then I have any product in my 25 year career in tech.  I really appreciate what Zextras is doing picking up the slack from Zimbra, I realize the effort involved, and I'm willing to live with some issues, but I have to ask:

  • When can we expect a stable, tested, release?  It's clear RHEL is not actually supported/tested fully.  Maybe things are better with Ubuntu?  It doesn't seem like it though when you release a version that is supposed to support chat and it doesn't work for anyone on either platform.  I REALLY want Carbonio to be successful and survive long term but the community is still seemingly pretty small and these issues are a huge turn off for new users like me.
  • Maybe I'm missing it but is there somewhere I can actually submit a bug report or feature request like most other OS projects?  I can't find that on github.  It's really frustrating that this small forum is the only way I can interact with the project. 

   
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 erik
(@erik)
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To be hounest, looking at your posting date, we are a year ahead and I am begining to make the same conclusion after 3 install attempts.

There is too much going wrong, too much nitted together instead of a simple working modulair setup in which you can choose which parts you don't want to install.

I am killing the Carbonio VM...

As my Zimbra is behind a front-end mailgateway EFA5, there is absolutely no need to say goodbye to my EoL Zimbra 8 OSE.


   
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(@sharif)
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@erik 

Hi,

Sorry to hear about your experience.

But we could help you if you could provide the details. Even your feedback with specifics could be valuable.

Regards,

Sharif


   
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 erik
(@erik)
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I would be glad to see the auto install script using "options" like when you don't want to use things like "files, chat, video, workflow". That would be nice because I had it all running once only when I did a full install. But I will not spend 24GB of RAM to a virtual solely to replace a Zimbra mailserver.


   
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(@sharif)
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@erik 

You can check this FAN Made Script: (Even modify it)
https://community.zextras.com/forum/postid/7467/

Where you can use the script to install upto tasks/files automatically then for workstream related features you can skip them or use role-wise installation guideline by the documentation


   
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 erik
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@sharif

Thank you very much!

Best wishes for 2025!


   
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(@sharif)
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@erik 

Happy New Year ahead to you all of your loved ones 🎉😊


   
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