Comments on How to Install Zimbra 8.6 on Ubuntu 14.04 Server

Hi,

I'm really happy to see a tutorial about how to install Zimbra Collaboration 8.6 in Ubuntu Server 14.04. To add to this amazing tutorial: Don't use ever, for a real production environment, a domaint that is not a valid TLD, as when need to install a SSL Certificate you will obtain an error, because any SSL vendor offer anymore the option to add .local, .lab, etc.

Amazing tutorial step-by-step.

Best regards.

Cada dia mas facil el proceso de instalacion. Excelente aporte. Salute

So I've been running Zimbra for the last 8 yrs. A few key things to making this work.

* Any /etc/hosts file with more than 2 lines will fail.  Zimbra installer will freak out. Don't know why, just that a non-trivial file won't work.

* A DNS MX record is mandatory. If you don't have DNS setup where Zimbra can see the MX record - don't bother starting.

* If running multiple email domains, ensure the hostname maps to the primary domain.

My hosts file had mroe than two lines and it was fine, but it did have v4 and v6, so maybe I only had two lines per protocol.The MX record doesn't have to point to your cluster for the installer to proceed, it just needs to have one.

Hello, This is awesome article and it works very nice for me, I'm really happy first time, when i'm creating Zimbra Server.

Thank you so much and long live.

bonjour, 

je viens de suivre votre tutorial pour installer mon serveur zimbra. L'installation est bonne. Cependant, je peux envoyer des mails depuis zimbra vers l'extérieur (vers mon gmail par exemple et ça part en spam), mais je ne peux pas recevoir de mail.je sais que ça a rapport avec le dns mais je ne sais pas exactement quoi faire.

j'ai mon nom de domaine chez ovh, j'ai crée un MX record depuis mondomain.fr vers mail, et j'ai redirigé mail.mondomaine.fr vers l'adresse IP de mon serveur zimbra.qu'est ce qui ne va pas ... Un peu d'aide svp ?

I'm sorry, I didn't know I was writing in french.What I said is that I've installed my zimbra server with this tutorial, and everything seems to work just fine.But problem is that I can send email from zimbra ( that goes to spam) but I cannot receive emails. I know that it has something to do with DNS but I don't know what exactly.I have amy domain. And I added a MX record from mydomain.fr to mail . And I added a redirection from mail.mydomail.fr to IP adress of my zimbra server.Can someone help me, i don't know exactly what's wrong with the dns ( or something else I don't know).thank you !!

What about checking your PTR records, DKIM records and SPF records. And check if they blacklisted your ip too.

Thanks for your document. I am new for the zimbra. I used your steps to install the zimbra in ubuntu14.04 server. I can use the zimbra client. But I unable to send mail to other server. Ex: [email protected] to [email protected]. I think I have missed somthing while configuring the hostname. Please help me solve this issues.

Thanks in advance.

Hello!

Great Tutorial. But I need to make it [email protected] not [email protected]. Can anyone help me?

I'm tired of trying to avoid MX record issue in Amazon AWS and I tried :https://elijahpaul.co.uk/installing-zimbra-7-0-zcs-on-ubuntu-10-04-lts-using-amazon-aws/ with no success.

Did you ever get this fixed? Im having the same issue :<

Great How-to, I'm really happy to see a tutorial about how to install Zimbra Collaboration 8.6 in Ubuntu Server 14.04.

i have some problem, can anybody help me to fix it?

zimbra@zimbra:~$ zmcontrol statusConnect: Unable to determine enabled services from ldap.Enabled services read from cache. Service list may be inaccurate.Host zimbra.fago.net.pl    amavis                  Running    antispam                Running    antivirus               Stopped        zmfreshclamctl is not running    dnscache                Stopped        dnscache is not running.    ldap                    Stopped    mailbox                 Stopped        mysql.server is not running.        zmmailboxdctl is not running.    memcached               Stopped        memcached is not running.    mta                     Stopped        zmsaslauthdctl is not running        postfix is not running    opendkim                Stopped        zmopendkimctl is not running.    proxy                   Stopped        zmnginxctl is not running    service webapp          Stopped        mysql.server is not running.        zmmailboxdctl is not running.    snmp                    Stopped        zmswatch is not running.    spell                   Stopped        zmapachectl is not running    stats                   Stopped    zimbra webapp           Stopped        mysql.server is not running.        zmmailboxdctl is not running.    zimbraAdmin webapp      Stopped        mysql.server is not running.        zmmailboxdctl is not running.    zimlet webapp           Stopped        mysql.server is not running.        zmmailboxdctl is not running.    zmconfigd               Stopped        zmconfigd is not running.

You also need aptitude install libaio1

Yes, you need that as well.

apt-get install wget gcc g++ make flex bison openssl libssl-dev perl perl-base perl-modules libperl-dev libperl4-corelibs-perl libaio1 libaio-dev

Bonjour,

Vous avez pu résoudre votre probleme, car j'ai le même probleme. si oui, merci de partager la solution.

NO! Do not install dnsmasq. Someone please remove this from the tutorial.

Can you help me?.   I have a VM Zentyal server with this configuration:   dns:  soa.com.local  IP: 192.168.163.3. When I tried to configure zimbra what is the best configuration.    ZimbraIP: 192.168.163.128   dns:What value put here??  Host: zimbra.local

Hi,

i install zcs server with zimbra-proxy. My problem is this thing: When i try to log zimbra from internet i must use url https://domainorip:8443. How to change it to https://domainorip?

Hello.please should i install dnsmasq when my ubuntu server is not the dns server?in my case the dns server is configured on windows server 2012 and ubuntu is supposed to be just the mail server

Thanks for sharing this greate tutorial. I've successfully install zimbra in my Ubuntu 14.04 (Vmware) server.