Installing Zimbra community 8.7 on Ubuntu 16.04

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

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1 root@silent:/cd /home/

2 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

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1 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.

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root@zimbra8:~# vim /etc/network/interfaces

If you have dhcp line

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1 allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp

Then change it to static Ethernet configuration

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1 allow-hotplug eth0

2 iface eth0 inet static

3 address 10.X.X.X

4 netmask 255.255.255.0

5 gateway 10.X.X.X

6 dns-nameservers 127.0.0.1

7 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

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1 root@silent:/home# vi /etc/hosts

2 127.0.0.1 localhost

3 10.10.2.101 mail.silent.com mail

Step 3 : Reboot machine

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1 root@silent:/home# reboot

Install zimbra

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1 root@silent:/home# cd zcs-8.7.7_GA_1787.UBUNTU16_64.20170410133400/

2 root@silent:/home/zcs-8.7.7_GA_1787.UBUNTU16_64.20170410133400# ./install.sh

3 Now follow given steps to complete the installation:

Step 1 : Read and accept license agreement:

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1 ...

2 ...

3 License Terms for the Zimbra Collaboration Suite:

4 http://www.zimbra.com/license/zimbra-public-eula-2-5.html

5 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

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1 Operations logged to /tmp/install.log.zlP8ruf3

2 Checking for existing installation...

3 zimbra-ldap...NOT FOUND

4 zimbra-logger...NOT FOUND

5 zimbra-mta...NOT FOUND

6 zimbra-dnscache...NOT FOUND

7 zimbra-snmp...NOT FOUND

8 zimbra-store...NOT FOUND

9 zimbra-apache...NOT FOUND

10 zimbra-spell...NOT FOUND

11 zimbra-convertd...NOT FOUND

12 zimbra-memcached...NOT FOUND

13 zimbra-proxy...NOT FOUND

14 zimbra-archiving...NOT FOUND

15 zimbra-core...NOT FOUND

16 PLEASE READ THIS AGREEMENT CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE SOFTWARE.

17 ZIMBRA, INC. ("ZIMBRA") WILL ONLY LICENSE THIS SOFTWARE TO YOU IF YOU

18 FIRST ACCEPT THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT. BY DOWNLOADING OR INSTALLING

19 THE SOFTWARE, OR USING THE PRODUCT, YOU ARE CONSENTING TO BE BOUND BY

20 THIS AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THE TERMS OF THIS

21 AGREEMENT, THEN DO NOT DOWNLOAD, INSTALL OR USE THE PRODUCT.

22 License Terms for the Zimbra Collaboration Suite:

23 http://www.zimbra.com/license/zimbra-public-eula-2-5.html

24 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.

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1 Checking for installable packages

2 Found zimbra-core

3 Found zimbra-ldap

4 Found zimbra-logger

5 Found zimbra-mta

6 Found zimbra-dnscache

7 Found zimbra-snmp

8 Found zimbra-store

9 Found zimbra-apache

10 Found zimbra-spell

11 Found zimbra-memcached

12 Found zimbra-proxy

13 Use Zimbra's package repository [Y]

14 Select the packages to install

15 Install zimbra-ldap [Y] y

16 Install zimbra-logger [Y] y

17 Install zimbra-mta [Y] y

18 Install zimbra-dnscache [Y] y

19 Install zimbra-snmp [Y] y

20 Install zimbra-store [Y] y .

21 .

22 Checking required space for zimbra-core

23 Checking space for zimbra-store

24 Checking required packages for zimbra-store

25 zimbra-store package check complete.

26 Installing:

27 zimbra-core

28 zimbra-ldap

29 zimbra-logger

30 zimbra-mta

31 zimbra-dnscache

32 zimbra-snmp

33 zimbra-store

34 .

35 .

36 The system will be modified.

37 Continue? [N] y

38 Removing /opt/zimbra

39 Removing zimbra crontab entry...done.

40 Cleaning up zimbra init scripts...done.

41 Cleaning up /etc/security/limits.conf...done.

42 Finished removing Zimbra Collaboration Server.

43 Installing packages

44 Local packages zimbra-core zimbra-ldap zimbra-logger zimbra-mta zimbra-snmp zimbra-store zimbra-apache zimbra-spell zimbra-proxy selected for installation

45 Monitor /tmp/install.log.sKlWbSLr for package installation progress

46 Remote package installation started

47 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....

48 Local package installation started

49 Installing zimbra-core zimbra-ldap zimbra-logger zimbra-mta zimbra-snmp zimbra-store zimbra-apache zimbra-spell zimbra-proxy...done

50 Operations logged to /tmp/zmsetup.20160430-185719.log

51 Installing LDAP configuration database...done.

52 Setting defaults...

53 …

54

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.

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1 DNS ERROR resolving MX for mail.silent.com

2 It is suggested that the domain name has an MX record configured in DNS

3  Change domain name? [Yes]

4 Create domain: [mail.silent.com] example.com

5 MX: mail.silent.com (10.10.2.101)

6 Interface: 192.168.1.252

7 Interface: fd7a:4c04:5f10:0:20c:29ff:feb9:ecf8

8 Interface: 127.0.0.1

9 Interface: ::1

10 done.

11 Checking for port conflicts

Step 5 : Set admin password

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1 Main menu

2 1) Common Configuration:

3 2) zimbra-ldap: Enabled

4 3) zimbra-logger: Enabled

5 4) zimbra-mta: Enabled

6  5) zimbra-dnscache: Enabled

7 6) zimbra-snmp: Enabled

8 7) zimbra-store: Enabled

9 +Create Admin User: yes

10 +Admin user to create: admin@mail.silent.com

11 ******* +Admin Password UNSET

12 ...

13 ...

14 ...

15 To change default admin password, select menu 7 and then inside zimbra store select 4, provide password and press enter

16 Type r to return to the Main menu.

17 Select from menu, or press ‘a’ to apply config (? – help) a

18 Save configuration data to a file? [Yes] : press enter

19 Save config in file: [/opt/zimbra/config.10687]:press enter

20 …

21 …

22 Notify Zimbra of your installation? [Yes]

23 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

24 Notification complete

25 Setting up zimbra crontab…done.

26Moving /tmp/zmsetup.20160430-185719.log to /opt/zimbra/log

27 Configuration complete – press return to exit

Step 6: Check the installation

To check the admin control panel: http://mail.silent.com:7071

To check user login: http://mail.silent.com