Scripting

Cold backup for the Open Source Edition of Zimbra

Today I’ve setup a cold backup routine to backup my Zimba installation running on my Debian (Etch) 4.0 server that is in full production now for my private domains. This is a slightly modified backup script for the Open Source Edition of Zimbra from the Zimbra Wiki. Please note that the script does a full […]

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Linux

Installing Zimbra on Debian 4.0 (Etch)

This post describes most of the steps I did to make a clean install of the open source edition of Zimbra on a little Debian test server including importing e-mail from a Dovecot IMAP-server. Downloaded the Debian 4 installer from the Open Source Edition Downloads page. Unpacked it and started the installer as root tar […]

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Linux

Share calendar between Zimbra users

This post describes how to create shared calendars between two users in Zimbra 5.0 In this example, the administrator designates a mount point to userA@example.com for the calendar to  userB@example.com account for which he will have read/write permissions. As user zimbra do the following zmmailbox mbox> adminAuthenticate -u https://server.example.com:7071 admin@example.com password mbox> selectMailbox userB@example.com mailbox: […]

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Network

Use local DNS name and IP from DHCP

For Red Hat Linux if you receive your IP address from a DHCP server, you may update the local DNS name by adding the following line to the correct ifcfg file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, such as ifcfg-eth0 or ifcfg-eth1: DHCP_HOSTNAME=”myhostname.example.com” If you are running Debian, edit /etc/network/interfaces as follows (adding the hostname line) iface eth0 inet […]

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