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It’s pretty easy to get Open Source Zimbra running on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS base server install:


admin@mail:~/$ wget "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/zimbra/zcs-4.5.3_GA_733.UBUNTU6.tgz?modtime=1172791115&big_mirror=0"
admin@mail:~/$ tar zxf zcs-4.5.3_GA_733.UBUNTU6.tgz
admin@mail:~/$ cd zcs
admin@mail:~/zcs$ sudo apt-get install libidn11 curl fetchmail libpcre3 libgmp3c2 libexpat1 libxml2 openssl perl-modules
admin@mail:~/zcs$ ./install.sh

The Zimbra install script is quite straight forward, trickest thing is watching out for the hostname of the server vs the domain you are hosting. ie. host:mail.example.com vs @example.com. Also look out for the option to change from http only (default) mode to either both or https only for the webmail client.
Couple useful pages

• Zmprov (Provisioning)
• Manage Domains

Zimbra is documented quite well. In fact could be held up as an example too almost all system application howto do this well.

Update: I forgot to add that I tried to get Zimbra working last year on Ubuntu and had major issues. They have made excellent progress over this period.

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