Zimbra Appliance

Email and Collaboration Suite

Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) is a groupware product that includes a web-based collaboration suite. It features email and group calendars, advanced search capabilities with date relationships, online document authoring and mashups. It provides an Ajax web interface that enables tool tips, draggable items, and right-click menus in the UI.

Current version: 2009.10-2 (changelog)

Download:

594MB VM (sig)

514MB ISO (sig) (manifest)

Launch to cloud:

TurnKey Hub (Amazon EC2 - Simplified)

This appliance includes all the standard features in TurnKey Core, and on top of that:

Zimbra configurations:
- Preconfigured with exemplary domain (example.com).
- Configured web server mode to use mixed-mode (SSL for login).
- Patched init script to fix minor bugs and increased verbosity.
- Includes fetchmail to support remote mail retrieval and forwarding.
- Includes DNS related packages (correct settings are essential).
SSL support out of the box.
No auto-updates for: Zimbra (installed from upstream Debian packages)

Includes custom zimbra-conf script to change domain, admin passwords and regenerate Zimbra related secrets.

/usr/local/bin/zimbra-conf DOMAIN ADMIN_PASS
# administrative user will be: admin@DOMAIN

Required RAM (minimal): 640MB
Mail DNS records example

mail                222.222.222.222             A
example.com.        mail.example.com            MX
example.com.  	    v=spf1 mx ~all              TXT

Default credentials:

Webmin, Webshell, SSH: username root, no password
- user sets password during installation
Zimbra: username admin@example.com, password turnkey