Zimbra8.x email server installation and configuration

Download instructions:

1. Version:
Zimbra has two major versions: Open Source Edition and Network Edition (Starter/Standard/Professional). The former is free of charge and the latter is charged.

The following is the VMWare Zimbra official website of Zimbra product comparison, For details, see the link: http://www.zimbra.com/products/compare_products.html

2. Environment (enter the following network and DNS information as required ):

OS: Ubuntu Server 12.04x64
Hostname: mail
Domain: sunnie.com
Address: 192.168.1.5
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.1

Nameserver: 192.168.1.2

3. Configure DNS (required)

# Nano/etc/bind/named. conf. local

Add the following content:

Zone "example.com "{

Type master;

File "/etc/bind/example.com ";

};

# Nano/etc/bind/example.com

Add the following content:

$ TTL 604800

@ In soa @ mail. local .(

20131212; Serial

604800; Refresh

86400; Retry

2419200; Expire

604800); Negative Cache TTL

;

@ In ns mail

@ In mx 10 mail

Mail in a 192.168.1.5

# Invoke-rc.d bind9 restart

4. Change the temporary dns on the Zimbra server to the official DNS and restart the server.

# Nano/etc/resolv. conf

Nameserver 192.168.1.5

# Reboot

5. Install Zimbra8.0.5

A) Upload the zcs-8.0.5_GA_5839.UBUNTU12_64.20130910124038.tgz over FTP to the/data/directory of the Ubuntu Server System
B) install Zimbra components:
# Aptitude install sudo libidn11 libpcre3 libgmp3c2 libperl5.14 libexpat1 perl5 sysstat sqlite3 file pax
C) Configure DNS and restart the server
# Nano/etc/resolvconf/resolv. conf. d/base
Nameserver 192.168.60.136
# Reboot
D) installation:
# Cd/data/
# Tar zxvf zcs-8.0.5_GA_5839.UBUNTU12_64.20130910124038.tgz
# Cd zcs-8.0.5_GA_5839.UBUNTU12_64.20130910124038
#./Install. sh
The following prompt is displayed during installation:
Do you agree with the terms of the software license agreement? [N] y
Install zimbra-ldap [Y] y
Install zimbra-logger [Y] y
Install zimbra-mta [Y] y
Install zimbra-snmp [Y] y
Install zimbra-store [Y] y
Install zimbra-apache [Y] y
Install zimbra-spell [Y] y
Install zimbra-memcached [N] y
Install zimbra-proxy [N] y
The system will be modified. Continue? [N] y
Change domain name? [Yes] no

Select 3
Then select 4
Enter the admin password. Here, my password is zimbra.
Select r to return to the parent directory

Select s
When you want to save the file, press Enter.

Select All configurations of application.
Select from menu, or press 'A' to apply config (? -Help)
Save configuration data to a file? [Yes]
Save config in file: [/opt/zimbra/config.9213]
Saving config in/opt/zimbra/config.9213...... done.
The system will be modified-continue? [No] yes
Notify Zimbra of your installation? [Yes] no
Configuration complete-press return to exit press enter to exit
E) Modify/opt/zimbra/. bashrc
# Nano/opt/zimbra/. bashrc
Find the PATH and add/usr/share/file at the beginning of the equal sign. The final form is as follows: PATH =/usr/share/file :$ {ZIMBRA_HOME}/bin: $ {ZIMBRA_HOME}/postfix/sbin :...
F) restart the server.
# Reboot

4) Client Logon

Https: // 192.168.1.5
Username: admin
Password: zimbra (admin Password modified)

5) test

A) external mail:
Now, assume that the login server 192.168.1.5 is in red and requires manual input.
The test procedure is as follows:
Telnet 192.168.1.5 25
Trying 192.168.1.5...
Connected to 192.168.1.5 (192.168.1.5 ).
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mail.example.com ESMTP Postfix
Helo example.com
250 mail.example.com
Mail from: <admin@example.com>
250 2.1.0 OK
Rcpt to: <zzban@126.com>
250 2.1.5 OK
Data
354 End data with <CR> <LF>. <CR> <LF>
Subject: this is a test mail
This is test mail content
.
250 2.0.0 OK: queued as 88B3B2A68032
Quit
221 2.0.0 Bye
Connection closed by foreign host.
In this way, the email is sent out. you can log on to your inbox to see if you have received the email. If you receive the email, it means everything is normal and it is over.
B) Inner mail
The steps are the same as above. You only need to swap the recipients email addresses shown in mail from with those shown in rcpt.

So far, zimbra8.0.5 integrated mail server has been set up