Install Zimbra 8.6 on Ubuntu 15.04 Server

Install Zimbra 8.6 on Ubuntu 15.04

The Zimbra Collaboration Server is a mail server, collaborative web application and a web based mail server admin console in a single application. It provides LDAP, antivirus, antispam, collaboration features and a ajax webmail client. Zimbra is easy to use for administrators as well as end users due to its fast Ajax based web interface.

Prerequisites
• Ubuntu Server 15.04 - 64bit
• root privileges
• Free space 25 GB
• RAM 4 GB

My zimbra Server profile used in this Lab

Domain : faceitnet.com.au
IP : 192.168.200.10
Mail : mail.faceitnet.com.au


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Installation of prerequisites

connect to your server, get root privileges and install this package.

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apt-get install libgmp10 libperl5.18 unzip pax sysstat sqlite3 dnsmasq wget

Configure hostname and DNS Server

Step 1 - Edit hostname and hosts

vim /etc/hostname

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change your hostname with this 'zimbramail.faceitnet.com.au'.

vim /etc/hosts

add this line:

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192.168.200.10   zimbramail.faceitnet.com.au zimbramail

Step 2 - Edit dnsmasq configuration

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vim /etc/dnsmasq.conf

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server=192.168.200.10

domain=faceitnet.com.au

mx-host=faceitnet.com.au, zimbramail.faceitnet.com.au, 5

mx-host= zimbramail.faceitnet.com.au, zimbramail.faceitnet.com.au, 5

listen-address=127.0.0.1

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Reboot

Installing Zimbra

Step 1 - Download Zimbra and extract it

Download using the following command if Download doesn’t work then download manually and upload to server using FTP service. (Need to configure FTP)

--> wget https://files.zimbra.com/downloads/8.6.0_GA/zcs-8.6.0_GA_1153.UBUNTU14_64.20141215151116.tgz

Extract the file using the following command:

Change the directory to extracted directory:

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cd zcs*

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Now install the package by run the ./install.sh command

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Continue the installation by Pressing Y

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You need to wait, because this installation takes some time.

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next step is configure "zimbra-store" for getting admin password.

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In my configuration you could see my Master DNS IP address was not configured, so I had to configure it to finish the configuration, Until that you will not be permitted to Apply configuration ( a to apply Configuration )

It will take some time to finalize all the configuration

Testing Zimbra

To test your zimbra server is running, you can type a command

su - zimbra

zmcontrol status

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try to access zimbra from web browser.  https://192.168.200.10/

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or try admin page " https://192.168.200.10:7071/ ".

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Once you have configured the Zimbra mail server, test the server by sending mails from two acceounts that you have created.

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