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Goodbye horde, hello Zimbra

Wed, 2008-07-30 06:14 — aron

I finally gave up trying to keep my hordeinstallation alive. It's been alot of work installing and upgrading the package and every time I've failed to retain my data. I was recommended Zimbra by a friend. It turns out it's a complete suite with mta, imap, spam- and virusscanner. This meant that I'd have to give up my carefully configured mail services. After bracing myself for a number of days, I got to it.

Pretty quickly I found an installation method that would enable me to keep my base system and apache installation on their wiki:  building Zimbra on Gentoo. It's a bit outdated, but with some modifications it's working fine. In case I see a request of interest for it here I could update it. Let me know.

After adding postfix and changing port number for ssh and a couple of other tweaks it's just the way I want it. Lovely.

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Wed, 2008-07-30 07:11 — jwickers (not verified)

Note of interest ... ;) I

Note of interest ... ;) I looked into Zimbra a long while ago, but i don't think i saw those instructions at the time. Well if you can update their wiki i would be glad to have another try and test it out, even if i am not into the IT anymore.
Wed, 2008-07-30 08:51 — Aniruddha (not verified)

I find installing a Debian

I find installing a Debian chroot on Gentoo hardly a viable solution. This means you have to monitor 2 OS for security updates and maintenance :S I just read a promising review about Axigen in Linux Format and I've been testing it since. I must say I'm impressed with their quick support and they even provide a Gentoo ebuild: http://www.axigen.com/
Wed, 2008-07-30 09:05 — Norbert Pil (not verified)

Hi Andreas, We're using

Hi Andreas, We're using Exchange at work and i'm looking for a replacement for it. I would love to see the instructions updated for the latest Zimbra. You've installed it in a chroot environment but i like to try installing it in a virtualization environment like kvm, openvz or xen and create some howtos about it. greetings, Norbert.
Wed, 2008-07-30 22:03 — aron

Update is on the

Update is on the way...

jwickers: I've posted on their wiki now and I'll update it in a few days if there's no objections. =)

Aniruddha: Well, I don't use gentoo to *avoid* updating labor and I've been curious about debian for a while now so this suits my needs fine for now. We all have our different goals =). I will check out axigen though. Looks like a nice tip!

Norbert: Unfortunately I have no experience with kvm or their likes but it's certainly a good idea to run it virtualized.

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Thu, 2008-07-31 14:43 — Aniruddha (not verified)

@Andreas? Another problem I

@Andreas? Another problem I have with Zimbra is that it is expensive (in comparison with Exchange server). And I do think that a commercial company should make the installation as hassle free as possible @Norbert Where do use your exchange server for? Is it an smtp server? Do you also use it to share calenders?
Thu, 2008-07-31 22:13 — aron

The update is in place. Have

The update is in place. Have fun and please comment if there's any errors.
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Sat, 2008-08-09 11:03 — aron

Updated again

I discovered that the logger needs the command 'killall' to be setup properly. Therefore the debian package psmisc can be installed to satisfy that.
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Mon, 2009-09-07 06:14 — Ed (not verified)

Thanks Andrea, like others in

Thanks Andrea, like others in this comment thread, I've been considering Zimbra for a while and your reference helped me a lot. Thank you so much! Cheers, Ed