For a long time Zimbra Administrators and Zimbra Delegated Administrators had the ability to manage their Zimbra infrastructure using the Zimbra Admin Console Web-UI. The functionality of the Zimbra Admin Console can be extended with Zimlets and Extensions allowing for more flexibility and integrations with 3rd party applications. We have created the admin-console-zimlets-and-extensions-guide repository where […]
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Optimizing Zimbra security and TLS settings via a script (updated August 2023)
By Barry de Graaff on February 8, 2023 in Product News, Community, Open Source, Partners, Security & Privacy, Zimbra SkillZ
A partner has requested a script to implement the Security tips and TLS settings documented at https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Cipher_suites and https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Secopstips . At Zimbra we love scripts! This article shows a script that configures Zimbra with strong TLS and security settings. Prerequisites You have set up a correct hostname and DNS, to check, run the following as […]
Automated installation of Zimbra and Lets Encrypt update!
Previously we introduced the zinstaller script that can be used for automating the installation of Zimbra. The zinstaller script will install a Zimbra 9 single server on Ubuntu 20 and will also obtain and install a 60-day trial license. It now also supports automated installation of Zimbra with Let’s Encrypt certificates and it will take […]
Implementing Custom Authentication using a Zimbra extension (updated)
By Barry de Graaff on June 15, 2022 in Community, Open Source, Security & Privacy, Zimbra SkillZ, Zimlets
In this article you will learn how to implement Custom Authentication using a Zimbra extension. The Java project and source code can be found at https://github.com/Zimbra/zimbra-custom-authentication. Take a look at https://github.com/Zimbra/zm-extension-guide if you are new to Java or building Zimbra extensions. The zm-extension-guide covers all the things needed to build the Custom Authentication extension. Zimbra […]
Automated installation of Zimbra
This article introduces the zinstaller script that can be used for automating the installation of Zimbra. The zinstaller script will install a Zimbra 9 single server on Ubuntu 20 and will also obtain and install a 60-day trial license. If you are new to Zimbra, the zinstaller script makes it easy to evaluate Zimbra on […]