Mon, 20 Feb 2006
Installing and Configuring Zimbra On Debian Sarge with an OpenBSD firewall
Installation was very simple. The
Debian
packages from the 3.0 release,
although labled "alpha (recommended for lab use)" installed without error after
reading the quick start guide. Here's the quick list for modifications made to
my system to get messages passing back and forth correctly. My network layout
is a single static IP and a private rfc1918 subnet. Routing is done on
OpenBSD the the server is on the internal subnet.
- Disable exim4 in all run levels. I prefer the sysv-rc-conf
package. Do
not uninstall it or APT will yell at you without end. Just turn it off.
- Add your hostname and internal IP to /etc/hosts or local DNS if you run it.
- Add your hostname and external IP to DNS on the internet and add an MX
record for it.
- Install a shitload of RAM. Zimbra is HUGE! HUGE I'm telling you! Like
Microsoft huge...maybe. I put a gig in the server.
- Forward ports you need from the outside in. I just did 80 and 25 to get
started. 995 and 993 will probably be next for POP and IMAP over SSL.
- Do this netcat proxy
trick on the OpenBSD box so zimbra can connect to the external IP from the
internal subnet. It uses both port
25 and 7025 for SMTP. Very important to do
both ports or mail will not be delivered.
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