Zimbra email collaboration is the leading open source enterprise email solution and the most preferred alternative to Microsoft Exchange. It is now available in hosted, cloud and on-premise versions. Zimbra provides an excellent browser-based interface that allows users to integrate with mail clients easily. Silent Infotech provides consultation, implementation and migration services with support for your Zimbra email/collaboration solution.
Download zimbra based on your platform, from latest release Zimbra Open Source. Here we will choose Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit release and download it with wget. Get the download address location and download form machine where you want to install zimbra
Download zimbra
root@silent:/cd /home/
root@silent:/home# wget https://files.zimbra.com/downloads/8.7.7_GA/zcs-8.7.7_GA_1787.UBUNTU16_64.20170410133400.tgz
Extract downloaded zimbra
root@silent:/home# tar tar xzf zcs-8.7.7_GA_1787.UBUNTU16_64.20170410133400.tgz
Prerequisite to install zimbra
Step 1 : In case the system configured by using DHCP, you need set an static IP for Zimbra Collaboration.
root@zimbra8:~# vim /etc/network/interfaces
If you have dhcp line:
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
Then change it to static Ethernet configuration:
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 10.X.X.X
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 10.X.X.X
dns-nameservers 127.0.0.1
dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8
Note, address : Zimbra machine ip,
gateway : router IP address in your Environment.
DNS Server, type your own Zimbra server if you will use an internal DNS server on Zimbra Server, or other IP in case you have a valid DNS Server already exist.
Step 2 : Set hostname
root@silent:/home# vi /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
10.10.2.101 mail.silent.com mail
Step 3 : Reboot machine
root@silent:/home# reboot
Install zimbra
root@silent:/home# cd zcs-8.7.7_GA_1787.UBUNTU16_64.20170410133400/
root@silent:/home/zcs-8.7.7_GA_1787.UBUNTU16_64.20170410133400# ./install.sh
Now follow given steps to complete the installation:
Step 1 : Read and accept license agreement:
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License Terms for the Zimbra Collaboration Suite:
http://www.zimbra.com/license/zimbra-public-eula-2-5.html
Do you agree with the terms of the software license agreement? [N] y
Step 2 : Now it will check if some zimbra packages already exist
Operations logged to /tmp/install.log.zlP8ruf3
Checking for existing installation...
zimbra-ldap...NOT FOUND
zimbra-logger...NOT FOUND
zimbra-mta...NOT FOUND
zimbra-dnscache...NOT FOUND
zimbra-snmp...NOT FOUND
zimbra-store...NOT FOUND
zimbra-apache...NOT FOUND
zimbra-spell...NOT FOUND
zimbra-convertd...NOT FOUND
zimbra-memcached...NOT FOUND
zimbra-proxy...NOT FOUND
zimbra-archiving...NOT FOUND
zimbra-core...NOT FOUND
PLEASE READ THIS AGREEMENT CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE SOFTWARE.
ZIMBRA, INC. ("ZIMBRA") WILL ONLY LICENSE THIS SOFTWARE TO YOU IF YOU
FIRST ACCEPT THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT. BY DOWNLOADING OR INSTALLING
THE SOFTWARE, OR USING THE PRODUCT, YOU ARE CONSENTING TO BE BOUND BY
THIS AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THE TERMS OF THIS
AGREEMENT, THEN DO NOT DOWNLOAD, INSTALL OR USE THE PRODUCT.
License Terms for the Zimbra Collaboration Suite:
http://www.zimbra.com/license/zimbra-public-eula-2-5.html
Do you agree with the terms of the software license agreement? [N] y
Step 3 : Select the services to be installed on this server.
To install Zimbra Collaboration on a single server, enter Y for the ldap, logger, mta, snmp, store, and spell packages.The installer verifies that there is enough room to install Zimbra Collaboration. If there is not, the installation stops.
Checking for installable packages
Found zimbra-core
Found zimbra-ldap
Found zimbra-logger
Found zimbra-mta
Found zimbra-dnscache
Found zimbra-snmp
Found zimbra-store
Found zimbra-apache
Found zimbra-spell
Found zimbra-memcached
Found zimbra-proxy
Use Zimbra's package repository [Y]
Select the packages to install
Install zimbra-ldap [Y] y
Install zimbra-logger [Y] y
Install zimbra-mta [Y] y
Install zimbra-dnscache [Y] y
Install zimbra-snmp [Y] y
Install zimbra-store [Y] y
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Checking required space for zimbra-core
Checking space for zimbra-store
Checking required packages for zimbra-store
zimbra-store package check complete.
Installing:
zimbra-core
zimbra-ldap
zimbra-logger
zimbra-mta
zimbra-dnscache
zimbra-snmp
zimbra-store
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The system will be modified.
Continue? [N] y
Removing /opt/zimbra
Removing zimbra crontab entry...done.
Cleaning up zimbra init scripts...done.
Cleaning up /etc/security/limits.conf...done.
Finished removing Zimbra Collaboration Server.
Installing packages
Local packages zimbra-core zimbra-ldap zimbra-logger zimbra-mta zimbra-snmp zimbra-store zimbra-apache zimbra-spell zimbra-proxy selected for installation
Monitor /tmp/install.log.sKlWbSLr for package installation progress
Remote package installation started
Installing zimbra-core-components zimbra-ldap-components zimbra-mta-components zimbra-snmp-components zimbra-store-components zimbra-apache-components zimbra-spell-components zimbra-memcached zimbra-proxy-components....
Local package installation started
Installing zimbra-core zimbra-ldap zimbra-logger zimbra-mta zimbra-snmp zimbra-store zimbra-apache zimbra-spell zimbra-proxy...done
Operations logged to /tmp/zmsetup.20160430-185719.log
Installing LDAP configuration database...done.
Setting defaults...
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Step 4 : Update MX records
If it throws exception about a missing MX record as given below, which says your domain DNS records are not matching with zimbra server’s expectation, based on the hostname which is configured earlier. Find your /etc/hostname file and check DNS records to resolve the problem.
DNS ERROR resolving MX for mail.silent.com
It is suggested that the domain name has an MX record configured in DNS
Change domain name? [Yes]
Create domain: [mail.silent.com] example.com
MX: mail.silent.com (10.10.2.101)
Interface: 192.168.1.252
Interface: fd7a:4c04:5f10:0:20c:29ff:feb9:ecf8
Interface: 127.0.0.1
Interface: ::1
done.
Checking for port conflicts
Step 5 : Set admin password
Main menu
1) Common Configuration:
2) zimbra-ldap: Enabled
3) zimbra-logger: Enabled
4) zimbra-mta: Enabled
5) zimbra-dnscache: Enabled
6) zimbra-snmp: Enabled
7) zimbra-store: Enabled
+Create Admin User: yes
+Admin user to create: admin@mail.silent.com
******* +Admin Password UNSET
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To change default admin password, select menu 7 and then inside zimbra store select 4, provide password and press enter
Type r to return to the Main menu.
Select from menu, or press ‘a’ to apply config (? – help) a
Save configuration data to a file? [Yes] : press enter
Save config in file: [/opt/zimbra/config.10687]:press enter
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Notify Zimbra of your installation? [Yes]
Notifying Zimbra of installation via http://www.zimbra.com/cgi-bin/notify.cgi?VER=8.7.7_GA_1787.UBUNTU16_64&MAIL=admin@mail.silent.com
Notification complete
Setting up zimbra crontab…done.
Moving /tmp/zmsetup.20160430-185719.log to /opt/zimbra/log
Configuration complete – press return to exit
Step 6 : Check installation
To check admin control panel: http://mail.silent.com:7071
To check user login: http://mail.silent.com
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