Zimbra has published a new update for Zimbra Mail Server & Collaboration Suite, Zimbra 5.0.22 and Zimbra 6.0.5. This is the first update since VMWare acquired Zimbra. I would like to test it to see whether status & logger problem on Zimbra 6.0.4 has been officially solved or not.
I’m currently testing Zimbra 6.0.5 64 bit [...]

I’m thinking about a project for a week end. Updating Zimbra Appliance to the latest version seems to be nice but I need a few feedback about the specification of appliance.
On previous version, I’m using Zimbra 5.0.18 on openSUSE 11.1 JeOS. It has minimum specification but it works pretty well (please let me know if [...]

Rumors that Yahoo will selling Zimbra has been discussed on mail server world for a month or two. The rumors caused some controversy regarding the issue that Yahoo will released Zimbra to Microsoft. The rumors has finally ended : Yahoo selling Zimbra but not for Microsoft, Yahoo sell it to VMWare instead.
As announced by  VMWare [...]

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Tutorial : Samba PDC + OpenLDAP on openSUSE 11.1 – Part 1, Installing Base System & Configuring Samba
Tutorial : Samba PDC + OpenLDAP on openSUSE 11.1 – Part 2, Configuring OpenLDAP
Tutorial : Samba PDC + OpenLDAP on openSUSE 11.1 – Part 3, Configuring smbldap-tools & LDAP Account Manager

Setting Dynamic DHCP & DNS Server
Dynamic [...]

Previous Tutorial :

Tutorial : Samba PDC + OpenLDAP on openSUSE 11.1 – Part 1, Installing Base System & Configuring Samba
Tutorial : Samba PDC + OpenLDAP on openSUSE 11.1 – Part 2, Configuring OpenLDAP

CONFIGURING SMBLDAP-TOOLS

Smbldap-tools are a CLI (Command Line Interface) and used as a command tools for insert, update or delete a data on Samba [...]

For anyone installing Zimbra 6.0.4 on openSUSE 11.1 64 bit or on SLES 11 64 bit and found a logger problem (the Zimbra logger status are running but the Zimbra Admin status marks with Red X and the Zimbra log has no content), the following thread on Zimbra Forums may help :

My own thread regarding [...]

Previous Tutorial : Tutorial : Samba PDC + OpenLDAP on openSUSE 11.1 – Part 1, Installing Base System & Configuring Samba

On previous tutorial, we have installing base system and setting up Samba configuration. Now, we will go to LDAP configuration.
LDAP on openSUSE 11.1 has a different style than the previous setting on openSUSE 10.3. openSUSE [...]

I would notice that based on my experience, configuring Samba PDC + OpenLDAP on openSUSE 11.1 are a long journey that would bring you into headache, so you must be careful on copying the configuration and make a proper changes to meet with your environment. Please give me a comment if you found a typo [...]

These are various reason why I decided to move the physical server into Virtualization. Below are some of the reasons :

Simplify system backup & restore. We do not need to reinstall everything because we could backup all system in an image. The restore process should be as simple as copying the image into new server
Reduces [...]

Below are a common mail server problems that  might be hit you if you wish to move and use your mail server as production server without full & complete check :

Relay access denied because you have a dynamic public IP Address
Email from your mail server delivered to spam box on Gmail or Yahoo mail
Some of [...]