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I just switched back to Zimbra (also open source) after years with Google Apps. It's been a spectacular experience so far, and it's nice to have email fell like email again (not to mention being in full control).. It has everything I need: a rich web client, good smartphone phone support, good spam filtering, and a good community.

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Another vote for Zimbra.

Seriously, it's not that hard to install and setup.

Once you have it all going the capabilities are immense. It also lives on your machine, using your SSL certs, and using as much in-place HDD encryption as you want.

This is how you take your privacy back. You care enough about it to do it yourself.

It's also how you give yourself a headache having to sysadmin a machine. I myself used to run Zimbra and switched to Google Apps. Too much irritation with backups, monitoring, security, et al.

+1 for Zimbra as well, is a very nice Exchange replacement! Having said that, Zimbra was just acquired recently (yes, AGAIN) and this fact makes me nervous, not sure whether to despair or rejoice.[1]

Mailpipe, if it ever happens, should help a lot getting some of that mail from the claws of Gmail and the likes. They can have my money.

[1] - https://blog.zimbra.com/blog/archives/2013/07/telligent-acqu...

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