ZIMBRA MAILSERVER IS STANDARD NOW


The the zimbra-collaboration-suite offers a high-end webinterface including shareable calendars, online documents, chat and at the same time imap- and pop-access for clients like thunderbird, outlook or a lot of mobile clients like mobile phones, handhelds ...

Cyrus-Imap-Server is still running for special demands, but we ask you only to use it in special case and after consulting with us.
Note for domainmasters: please be aware that there was no change in the way how you setup your emailadresses. Creation/Modification of you mailboxes still works via the webinterface described below. No matter if you use zimbra or cyrus/horde. In Fact this webinterface is the location where domain-masters can choose for theirs users to use zimbra or cyrus !!

For Information how to use your zimbra.account please look at the Zimbra-Setup-Page

If you want to try zimbra before deciding to use zimbra as your mailsystem there is a demo-acount available.

Please continue to the Cyrus/Horde-Setup-Page

If you want to switch your mailsystem please ask your domainmaster to modify your mailbox (as described) below and activate “zimbra” instead of “cyrus”. This will leave your cyrus-account activated (and so you can still access your old mails on this account via horde-webmail or your mailclient), but new incoming mails will be delivered to your zimbra-box now that can be accessed as descibed above.

You can now use any decent mailclient (thunderbird is highly recommended !!) to copy/move all your old emails from your cyrus-account to your zimbra-account. Just create the cyrus-account and the zimbra-account as imap-accounts in your mailclient and copy/move the mails from one account to another.

Migration of your mail on the serverside is possible and can be done under special circumstances. Please contact pilsl@goldfisch.at if you have already activated your new zimbra-account and already receive your new mails there but want to migrate your old mails to the new zimbra-account automatically. Please note that this puts some work on me so especially for smaller and simple mailaccounts please try to do it yourself as described above before contacting me.

Please never use both systems at the same time and be sure to delete the emails from cyrus/horde after you migrated them to zimbra.

You can of course keep all your old mails at cyrus/horde and all new mails at zimbra. I just want to avoid to double-store your mails at zimbra and cyrus/horde !!

No matter if you use zimbra or cyrus/horde, please note that all your passwords and emails are transfered unencrypted so it is possible for attackers to sniff this passwords and get full access to your emails. Its very easy to prevent this by just using SSL/TLS-encryption for incoming and outgoing emails. In most emailclients you simply have to select “server uses SSL/TLS-encryption” for incoming- and outgoing mailserver. content.

For users that do not have access to a emailclient with clientsided mailrules or for dealing with high-volume traffic you can use servermailrules.

Every user can define a wide range of webrules online. Webrules are simple rules that will be applied to incoming emails before the mail is actually delivered to the mailbox. This rules may help you to sort your mail to subboxes, reject unwanted adresses, forward mails to other accounts or create an autoreply-message while you are out-of-duty.

Please note that pop-users should not sort their mail to subboxes, cause pop does not fetch mail from subboxes.

webrules-interface

The very basic interface should be selfexplaining for experienced users.

Please not that zimbra has its own interface for mailrules, so zimbra-users should use the zimbra-interface.

so called “master-accounts” can create new mailboxes for their domains via a webinterface. Each mailbox can receive the mails for one or more emailadresses. Different to many other systems the name of the mailbox can be completely different from the adresses this box will receive.

To create new boxes you can logon at the webinterface:

create and modify accounts

please note that each “master” has its unique prefix to distinguish users from differnt domains. The prefix is in most cases a number and a dash. This prefix is automatically added to new mailboxes if its not added by the user. So all mailboxes for a certain set of domains will - in example - begin with ‘67-’. The name of the mailbox is the username for accessing the mailbox via imap/pop/webmail/mailrules.


Please note that you can setup for each mailbox if the mails for this mailbox should be delivered to the cyrus/horde mailsystem or the zimbra-mailsystem.

Always be sure that exactely one of this mailsystems is checked. If none is checked then mails to this mailbox cannot be delivered. If both are checked the goldfisch needs more resources than it should be**

There is a own page deticated in fighting spam : fighting the evil