How to Install & configure Zimbra Open Source Mail Server on CentOS & RHEL

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b><u><i>Install & configure Zimbra Open Source Mail Server on CentOS & RHEL</i></u></b></span><br /> <div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31px;">Zimbra  is a Free Email Server and Calendar & collaboration solution, built for the both  public and private cloud . It is also considered an Exchange replacement. Zimbra provides a web GUI from where mailserver admin can manage zimbra server. Zimbra provides end users with a feature-rich browser-based experience that enables them to seamlessly and securely connect to their emails on any device or platform.</span></div> <div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 26px;"> In this tutorial we will install & configure open source zimbra server on CentOS 6.X / RHEL 6.X. Before installating zimbra sever following prerequisite should be completed.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 26px;"> <span style="color: #0b5394;">1. Create MX record for your domain<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2. Create A record for your’s Hostname</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 26px;"> In my case domain is “hackthesec.co.in” & Server’s Hostname is “zimbra.hackthesec.co.in”</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 26px;"> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Step:1</strong> Install Necessary  Packages & update hosts file</div> <pre style="background-color: #f1f1f1; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace, monospace; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31px; margin-top: 24px; overflow: auto; padding: 4px 10px;"><span style="color: #222222;"># # yum -y </span><span style="color: #783f04;">install nc wget nano make nc sudo sysstat</span><span style="color: #222222;"> libtool-ltdl glibc perl ntp</span></pre> <div> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 26px;"> <span style="color: red;">Edit the file /etc/hosts</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 26px;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: navy;">x.x.x.x zimbra.hackthesec.co.in</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 26px;"> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Step:2</strong> Stop Sendmail & postfix service if started & Disabled Selinux</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 26px;"> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"></strong></div> <pre style="background-color: #f1f1f1; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: monospace, monospace; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31px; margin-top: 24px; overflow: auto; padding: 4px 10px;"># chkconfig sendmail off ; service sendmail stop ; chkconfig postfix off ; service  postfix stop ;</pre> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 26px;"> <span style="color: #222222;">Disable selinux  in the file </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: red;">/etc/selinux/config</span></span><span style="color: #222222;"> change the selinux= line to </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: red;">SELINUX=disabled </span></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 26px;"> <span style="color: #0b5394;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Step:3</strong> Download the Zimbra Server using below command</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 26px;"> <span style="color: #0b5394;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"></strong></span></div> <pre style="background-color: #f1f1f1; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: monospace, monospace; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31px; margin-top: 24px; overflow: auto; padding: 4px 10px;"># wget http://files2.zimbra.com/downloads/8.0.4_GA/zcs-8.0.4_GA_5737.RHEL6_64.20130524120036.tgz</pre> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 26px;"> <span style="color: #0b5394;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></strong></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 26px;"> <span style="color: #0b5394;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Step:4 </strong>Now extract Zimbra tar file using below command</span></div> <pre style="background-color: #f1f1f1; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace, monospace; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31px; margin-top: 24px; overflow: auto; padding: 4px 10px;"><span style="color: #222222;"># </span><span style="color: #783f04;">tar -zxpvf </span><span style="color: #222222;">zcs-8.0.4_GA_5737.RHEL6_64.20130524120036.tgz</span></pre> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 26px;"> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></strong></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 26px;"> <span style="color: #0b5394;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Step:5 </strong>Now Change the directory & run below command to install zimbra</span></div> <pre style="background-color: #f1f1f1; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace, monospace; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31px; margin-top: 24px; overflow: auto; padding: 4px 10px;"><span style="color: #222222;"># cd zcs-8.0.4_GA_5737.RHEL6_64.20130524120036 # </span><span style="color: #20124d;">./install.sh  --platform-override</span></pre> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 26px;"> We are using ‘<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">–platform-override</strong>‘ option in above command because installation script is only for Redhat  Linux but we are installing on CentOS 6.X machine so to override the Platform condition we are using this option. When we execute the above command we will get below output and follow the instructions :</div> <pre style="background-color: #f1f1f1; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: monospace, monospace; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31px; margin-top: 24px; overflow: auto; padding: 4px 10px;">Operations logged to /tmp/install.log.2570 Checking for existing installation... zimbra-ldap...NOT FOUND zimbra-logger...NOT FOUND zimbra-mta...NOT FOUND zimbra-snmp...NOT FOUND zimbra-store...NOT FOUND zimbra-apache...NOT FOUND zimbra-spell...NOT FOUND zimbra-convertd...NOT FOUND zimbra-memcached...NOT FOUND zimbra-proxy...NOT FOUND zimbra-archiving...NOT FOUND zimbra-cluster...NOT FOUND zimbra-core...NOT FOUND PLEASE READ THIS AGREEMENT CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE SOFTWARE. ZIMBRA, INC.. License Terms for the Zimbra Collaboration Suite: http://www.zimbra.com/license/zimbra_public_eula_2.1.html Do you agree with the terms of the software license agreement? [N] Y Do you agree with the terms of the software license agreement? [N] Y License Terms for the Zimbra Collaboration Suite: http://www.zimbra.com/license/zimbra_public_eula_2.1.html Do you agree with the terms of the software license agreement? [N] Y Do you agree with the terms of the software license agreement? [N] Y Checking for prerequisites... FOUND: NPTL FOUND: nc-1.84-22 FOUND: sudo-1.8.6p3-12 FOUND: libidn-1.18-2 FOUND: gmp-4.3.1-7 FOUND: /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 Checking for suggested prerequisites... FOUND: perl-5.10.1 FOUND: sysstat FOUND: sqlite Prerequisite check complete. Checking for installable packages Found zimbra-core Found zimbra-ldap Found zimbra-logger Found zimbra-mta Found zimbra-snmp Found zimbra-store Found zimbra-apache Found zimbra-spell Found zimbra-memcached Found zimbra-proxy Select the packages to install 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 Checking required space for zimbra-core Checking space for zimbra-store Installing: zimbra-core zimbra-ldap zimbra-logger zimbra-mta zimbra-snmp zimbra-store zimbra-apache zimbra-spell zimbra-memcached zimbra-proxy The system will be modified.  Continue? [N] Y Removing /opt/zimbra Removing zimbra crontab entry...done. Cleaning up zimbra init scripts...done. Cleaning up /etc/ld.so.conf...done. Cleaning up /etc/security/limits.conf...done. Finished removing Zimbra Collaboration Server. Installing packages zimbra-core......zimbra-core-8.0.4_GA_5737.RHEL6_64-20130524120036.x86_64.rpm...done zimbra-ldap......zimbra-ldap-8.0.4_GA_5737.RHEL6_64-20130524120036.x86_64.rpm...done zimbra-logger......zimbra-logger-8.0.4_GA_5737.RHEL6_64-20130524120036.x86_64.rpm...done zimbra-mta......zimbra-mta-8.0.4_GA_5737.RHEL6_64-20130524120036.x86_64.rpm...done zimbra-snmp......zimbra-snmp-8.0.4_GA_5737.RHEL6_64-20130524120036.x86_64.rpm...done zimbra-store......zimbra-store-8.0.4_GA_5737.RHEL6_64-20130524120036.x86_64.rpm...done zimbra-apache......zimbra-apache-8.0.4_GA_5737.RHEL6_64-20130524120036.x86_64.rpm...done zimbra-spell......zimbra-spell-8.0.4_GA_5737.RHEL6_64-20130524120036.x86_64.rpm...done zimbra-memcached......zimbra-memcached-8.0.4_GA_5737.RHEL6_64-20130524120036.x86_64.rpm...done zimbra-proxy......zimbra-proxy-8.0.4_GA_5737.RHEL6_64-20130524120036.x86_64.rpm...done Operations logged to /tmp/zmsetup.12152013-081656.log Installing LDAP configuration database...done. Setting defaults... DNS ERROR resolving MX for zimbra.hackthesec.co.in It is suggested that the domain name have an MX record configured in DNS Change domain name? [Yes] Yes Create domain: [zimbra.hackthesec.co.in] hackthesec.co.in.com                                            MX: zimbra.hackthesec.co.in (162.13.151.48) Interface: 162.13.151.48 Interface: 2a00:1a48:7807:102:c7d4:45f6:ff08:2209 Interface: 10.181.72.68 Interface: 127.0.0.1 Interface: ::1 done.</pre> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 26px;"> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Step:6</strong> Next you will come to the Main Menu which will show your configuration. Select #3 then change the Admin Password under option #4 next hit r to go back.</div> <pre style="background-color: #f1f1f1; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: monospace, monospace; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31px; margin-top: 24px; overflow: auto; padding: 4px 10px;">*** CONFIGURATION COMPLETE - press 'a' to apply Select from menu, or press 'a' to apply config (? - help) a Save configuration data to a file? [Yes] Yes Save config in file: [/opt/zimbra/config.10975] Saving config in /opt/zimbra/config.10975...done. The system will be modified - continue? [No] Yes Operations logged to /tmp/zmsetup.12152013-081656.log Setting local config values...</pre> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 26px;"> When Configuration complete – press return to exit. Now the zimbra installation is completed.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 26px;"> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Step:7 </strong>Access web administration console</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 26px;"> Use the URL ‘<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: navy;">https://<Server’s HostName>:7071′</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 26px;"> In my case URL is “https://zimbra.hackthesec.co.in:7071”</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 26px;"> Use the User Name as admin and Password that we have set while installation in the above steps.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Z6KUHaYWeXQFyG6YvYFqoR8TxIHBXyznC-xYB21cPSbtkm__Vqpt3gI6xqm46NomSYAgE0wLCg79B7b_im0isFjOOqVbgYtSh_MIeg3s-uciNeHe4tfhQ5-rQyFdS_Zo0E0mBkF_XtUx/s1600/zimbra-admin-console_www.hackthesec.co.in.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Z6KUHaYWeXQFyG6YvYFqoR8TxIHBXyznC-xYB21cPSbtkm__Vqpt3gI6xqm46NomSYAgE0wLCg79B7b_im0isFjOOqVbgYtSh_MIeg3s-uciNeHe4tfhQ5-rQyFdS_Zo0E0mBkF_XtUx/s1600/zimbra-admin-console_www.hackthesec.co.in.jpg" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 26px;"> <br /> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans'; margin-bottom: 26px;"> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Note</strong> : Use zmcontrol Command to  stop, start & to check Status of zimbra Server</div> <pre style="background-color: #f1f1f1; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: monospace, monospace; margin-top: 24px; overflow: auto; padding: 4px 10px;">[root@zimbra ~]# su - zimbra [zimbra@zimbra ~]$ zmcontrol status [zimbra@zimbra ~]$ zmcontrol stop [zimbra@zimbra ~]$ zmcontrol start</pre> <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/" target="_blank">www.hackthesec.co.in</a><br /> <a href="https://www.twitter.com/hackthesecurity" target="_blank">Hack The Sec Twitter</a></div> </div> </div>

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