Astra Group switched to its own RuPost mail server

2023: Migration from Zimbra Collaboration Suite to RuPost

"Astra Group", a developer in the field of system and infrastructure, ON implemented the migration of corporate mails to a product of its own development - mail from server RuPost the company "." RuPost This was announced on October 26, 2023 by representatives of the Astra Group.

RuPost is a comprehensive email management software solution for organizations of all sizes, compatible with OCAstra Linux Special Edition. According to the developers, the product is distinguished by a convenient graphical installer and a visual visual control panel. The configuration process is simple with out-of-the-box configuration templates. The solution includes a native RuPost Desktop mail client, a web client, and a plugin for Microsoft Outlook. The enterprise mail server supports automatic migration from Microsoft Exchange and parallel operation with the Microsoft solution.

Before switching to RuPost, Astra Group used an analogue open source Zimbra with Collaboration Suite (ZCS). The migration process to RuPost started in mid-August 2023 and is taking place in stages: in turn in all divisions. As of October 26, 2023, RuPost is already used by about 80% of the vendor's employees, and in total it is planned to transfer 1,700 users.

Most customers of Astra Group actively transfer their mail service to RuPost from Microsoft Exchange using the built-in RuPost Migration Tool, which allows you to solve this problem in automated mode and in a short time.

"Thanks to the transition of Astra Group to RuPost, as a developer, we have gained important experience in introducing large mailboxes in an organization with a large number of users and accumulated large mailboxes over many years, as well as migrating from the postal system rarely used in Russia. When deploying the new server, the company continued to continuously use mail as a key component of external and internal communications. The move of the group to the RuPost Enterprise server, complete with the RuPost Desktop client, confirmed the readiness of our solution to integrate customers of any scale into the infrastructure, "said Mikhail Gellerman, CEO of RuPost.