Haraka and LDAP Authentication with Zimbra

A friend of mine, Raihan-worked as part of my engineer team @ Excellent-learn Haraka since December as an alternative for simple SMTP engine for our tailor-made SMTP Relay. We would like to build a fast, simple, light, highly extensible SMTP server as a replacement for our current postfix or Zimbra. What is Haraka? Haraka is…

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Upgrading Zimbra 8.8.12 into 8.8.15 LTS

Zimbra 8.8.15 has been released last week. According to Zimbra product lifecycle, this release will be an LTS (Long Term Support) release and will have general support until 2022 and tehnical guidance until 2023. As Zimbra version 8.8.12 general support will be ended on September 2019, I would prefer to upgrade all of our Zimbra…

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Zimbra MariaDB Error : Can’t init tc log

A few days ago, our clients had problems with their on-premise mail server deployment. Their Zimbra services are down and mailbox service could not restart. After a quick check, it turns out that one of the disk partitions is full because there is an incorrect mounting disk. As it uses incorrect folder/disk, backup process filling up…

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Script to Remove Over Quota Message from Zimbra Queue

Sometimes we have a bunch of over quota message filling up Zimbra queue, with detail as below : 197CF170F9 59761 Wed Oct 24 09:49:48   email-palsu@vivianchow.id (host alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[74.125.195.27] said: 452-4.2.2 The email account that you tried to reach is over quota. Please direct 452-4.2.2 the recipient to 452 4.2.2 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=OverQuotaTemp m3-v6si2776998pld.435 – gsmtp (in reply to…

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Design Examples for Large Scale Zimbra Deployments

Zimbra Collaboration Suite is an open source email and collaboration platform that includes email, contacts, calendar, documents and more. It is a Web-based application suite that can be deployed as an on-premise private cloud or outsourced public cloud service. I’ve been using Zimbra since 2007 (version 4.x) for variety scale of implementation : from hundreds to fifty thousand…

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