I’ve been playing around with Zimbra opensource edition on my development server. Zimbra is a full-featured, open source collaboration suite for email, group calendaring, contacts, and web document management and authoring. web interface is equipped with AJAX and it is compatible with clients such as Outlook, Apple Mail, and Novell Evolution so that mail, contacts, and calendar items can be synchronised from these to the ZCS server. It also can be synchronized to many mobile devices. ZCS makes use of many existing open source projects such as Postfix, MySQL, and OpenLDAP.
In this experiment i was using Zimbra 64bit_x86 opensource edition
DNs setting
mail.domain.tld. A 192.168.1.2 domain.tld. MX 10 mail.domain.tld.
Download the installer
# wget http://h.yimg.com/lo/downloads/6.0.1_GA/zcs-6.0.1_GA_1816.RHEL5_64.20090911174852.tgz
Extract the installer tarball, make sure we have enough space.
# tar xvzf 6.0.1_GA/zcs-6.0.1_GA_1816.RHEL5_64.20090911174852.tgz # cd zcs-6.0.1_GA_1816.RHEL5_64.20090911174852
Begin installat]ion
# ./install.sh --platform-override
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Starting servers...done.
Installing common zimlets...
com_zimbra_ymemoticons...done.
com_zimbra_bulkprovision...done.
com_zimbra_email...done.
com_zimbra_date...done.
com_zimbra_cert_manager...done.
com_zimbra_local...done.
com_zimbra_phone...done.
com_zimbra_url...done.
Finished installing common zimlets.
Initializing Documents...done.
Restarting mailboxd...done.
Setting up zimbra crontab...done.
Moving /tmp/zmsetup.09252009-081754.log to /opt/zimbra/log
Configuration complete - press return to exit
the installation is done.
To access the admin console:
https://mail.domain.tld:7071/zimbraAdmin/
login with admin user and password you’ve specified at install time.
Administration Console screenshots
Webmail Client
Smells like yahoo webmail isn’t it? 😀