Zimbra supports various authentication sources for authenticating users. Examples include external LDAP, Active Directory and custom authentication plugins. Prior to Zimbra 10.0.8 the setting of zimbraAuthFallbackToLocal had no effect on administrative accounts. Meaning you could use the username and password from Zimbra LDAP for signing on to an admin account. Even if the admin account […]
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How to fix Samsung Phones not being able to send mail (ActiveSync)
In this article you will find a short how-to on how to fix the issue that some Samsung phones can receive mail, see calendars, but cannot send mail via Zimbra. Users will see messages go immediately to the outbox with a warning that the message was not sent. ActiveSync protocol version This issue affects only […]
Zimbra BigBlueButton Zimlet
With the Zimbra BigBlueButton Zimlet you can offer your users a convenient way to schedule meetings in BigBlueButton right from within the Zimbra UI. The Zimlet adds an option to insert BigBlueButton meeting information to calendar appointments in Zimbra and offers a way to join BigBlueButton meetings from Zimbra. The integration is available for Zimbra […]
Introducing vdirsyncer for migrating calendars and addressbooks
Vdirsyncer is a command-line tool for synchronizing calendars and addressbooks between servers such as Zimbra and Nextcloud or any server that supports open standards such as CalDAV/CardDAV. Aditionally Vdirsyncer support Google Calendar and Google Contacts. While vdirsyncer excels at migrating calendar and address book data, it’s worth noting that email data migration can be achieved […]
Creating a Zimbra dynamic distribution list
Did you know that you can create dynamic distribution lists in Zimbra? The benefit of dynamic distribution lists is that they are based on LDAP queries. So whenever users are added/removed/changed on your Zimbra server, the distribution list is automatically kept up-to-date based on the contents of LDAP and your query. The creation of dynamic […]
Manage Global S3 Configurations using zms3config CLI
In a previous blog we introduced Zimbra’s new Storage Management, in this article we introduce you to zms3config a command line application that allows you to manage Zimbra’s S3 configuration. The zms3config is the CLI utility to manage the Global S3 buckets which can be shared across mailstore nodes. Bucket configurations can be created from any node […]