Tag: #zimbra
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Installing Commercial SSL Certificate in Zimbra Server
Hey there! In this post, I’m going to share my experience on installing a commercial SSL certificate in Zimbra server. Before I get into the actual installation, let’s briefly discuss about how SSL generally works. First, we need to generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) in our server. If you don’t know how to generate…
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Blocking Mails Based on Subject in Zimbra
Welcome back! In this post, let’s talk about tightening our Antispam or Spamassassin in Zimbra. In real-time, there may be a serious reason for filtering and blocking mails based on subject that contain certain structures or words. Here are the steps to achieve this objective in Zimbra 8.5 and later. 1) Create a policy file inside…
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Enable Authentication In Zimbra CBPolicyd Webui
Hello there! In this post, I’m going to write about how to enable authentication in Zimbra CBPolicyd Webui. If you use Zimbra but haven’t yet used CBPolicyd, I recommend you to see me previous post where I discussed about installation and use of CBPolicyd for managing mail related rules or restrictions in Zimbra. Until now,…
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Restricting Certain Users from Sending/Receiving External Mails in Zimbra
Hello! In this post, I’m going to talk about how to configure a Zimbra server to restrict certain users from sending or receiving mails from external domains. In order to achieve this objective, Zimbra provides two alternatives: one using CBPolicyd (web based) and another using MTA restrictions (cli based). Here I’m covering both methods. First,…
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Zimbra Distribution Lists Disappearing Issue
Welcome! In this post, I’m once again going to discuss about Zimbra Collaboration Suite. This is about an incident that I recently came across, in which some of the mail distribution lists of one of our clients got automatically removed from the system. On doing some research, I learned that this type of issue was…
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Backup/Restore Zimbra LDAP for DR
Overview In this post, I’m going to cover the topic on how to backup and restore LDAP database and config in case of disaster. If you’re a Zimbra administrator, this is a must have knowledge. This can be useful for anyone with an interest in system administration and mail servers. The reason I’m writing this…
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Setup Zimbra Mail Server-Post Installation
Welcome back! If you’ve been following up with my previous blogs, it is a continuity to my last blog on how to setup Zimbra mail server in CentOS. Till now, I’ve already covered the preparation and installation of ZCS package. From here, I’ll get into the post-installation part for our mail server setup. Changing SSH…
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Setup Zimbra Mail Server in CentOS
Hello and welcome back to my next blog! In this post, I’m going to share how to setup Zimbra Mail Server in CentOS server. Since I’m going to cover this topic from start to end, it might be a long read and I hope you’ll manage to go through it. Just to give you a…
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How To Restore Zimbra When LDAP DB Is Corrupted
A week ago, I received a call from one of our clients to whom we provide system and networking support. They had called me to inform that their Zimbra server had stopped working after an unexpected power outage. So, I asked them to provide me a remote access to their server so that I could analyze…