Zimbra

[voxxitdesigns]

Has anyone installed the Network Edition of this? It would be a great how-to on how to disable the mail server for a domain, and let Zimbra handle it instead?

Would it be possible to have two separate mail servers running (dovecot and zimbra) and then have like mail.* be dovecot and mail2.* be zimbra?

http://zimbra.com/partners/hosting_partners.html

 

[nickwe]

HEllo,

I'm also interested in this, so:

1) Would it be possible to have Zimbra and DA on the same server?
2) Is it possible to disable/uninstall Exim from DA? If yes, how?

I'm not asking to have DA and Zimbra synchronise on one server, just to have them side by side without perturbing each other.

Regards,


Nicolas Heinen.

 

[nobaloney]

You'd have to run one of them on some other port, and of course the one on port 25 is going to be the one that gets all the incoming email.

Jeff

 

[nickwe]

OK thanks, I'll try that on my test server, I expected the procedure to be more complicated

 

[morfargekko]

I think there are more people out there wanting this, I am one of them.
Please let us know how it goes and maybe post a HowTo it it works.

 

[nobaloney]

Okay, time to revisit this.

DirectAdmin's email managment is highly integrated.

Yes you can have multiple mailservers on one running DirectAdmin installation, but the second one isn't going to do much.

Why?

Because DirectAdmin creates mailboxes, accepts email, and delivers mail, based on specific integration with exim, and DirectAdmin knows to build specific file structures which are used by the current exim.conf file. It's doubtful that you'll be able to get Zimbra to read the files DirectAdmin creates and uses, and it's doubtful you'll be able to get DirectAdmin to read the files Zimbra creates and uses.

Currently exim is bound to port 25 and 587, and Dovecot (in updated installations) is bound to port 110 and 143.

So where are you going to bind Zimbra? For example, bind Zimbra to port 2525. Now, how are you going to tell the world that for some domains email should be sent to port 2525 instead of port 25? Maybe you're some kind of networking guru who can figure it out; go for it.

Or perhaps you'll decide to shut down the exim and dovecot services on your DA system. Go for it, but then NOTHING in DirectAdmin that's in any way email specific, not even creating email addresses, is going to work. So at the very least you'll have to create an entire new front-end (skin, scripts, etc.) for every email function in DirectAdmin.

Go for it!



Jeff