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Vendor: Zarafa
4.0 out of 5
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What is Zarafa?

Open-source email and collaboration software with calendaring, tasks and contacts management, mobile devices compatability.
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Zarafa is the #15 ranked solution in top Email Applications. PeerSpot users give Zarafa an average rating of 8.0 out of 10. Zarafa is most commonly compared to Zimbra Collaboration: Zarafa vs Zimbra Collaboration.
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Zarafa mindshare

As of April 2025, the mindshare of Zarafa in the Email Applications category stands at 0.4%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Tivoli, InterAkt Contour, Riagg Rijnmond, Lammerink, Revell, KMP, International School of the Hague

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Senior Consultant IT Infrastructure at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Verified user of Zarafa
Jul 19, 2016
Product version discussed: 7
Our customers are able to use this groupware solution to connect to Active Directory and OpenLDAP, although Postgres support would be an improvement.

What is most valuable?

Zarafa has several very valuable features, among them a very good Outlook-like web interface.

Furthermore, ZPush for talking between ActiveSync and mobile devices is a valuable asset.

In addition, one is able to connect via Outlook and the exchange protocol to Zarafa. This makes Zarafa a free, and working, alternative to Microsoft Exchange.

How has it helped my organization?

I mostly installed Zarafa for customers. They found it to be a lightwight groupware solution with many enterprise features, such as connecting to Active Directory or OpenLDAP.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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PeerSpot user
Consultant at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of Zarafa
May 1, 2014
A great alternative for Exchange at a fraction of the costs
Pros ------- + Drop in replacement for exchange + Open-source runs on linux + Lower hardware requirements + Outlook support + A fraction of the license costs + blackberry and active sync support + exchange migration tools + Online documentation Cons ------- + webapp is replacing webaccess but is still missing some features. Experiences ----------------- As a zarafa partner we can count on great support from Zarafa. Depolyment is easy, dependencies are automatic taken care of and the online documentation is great Business Metrics ------------------------ Zarafa is a fraction of the cost what u would pay for exchange also hardware requirements are much lower. One of our clients is running quite easy 350 users on a single machine. Alternatives Vendors ----------------------------- Zimbra is the other alternative with commercial support. Reason we prefer Zarafa is that it wil not touch the postfix or other components so security wise a better choice.
*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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