You can access your Zimbra email, contacts and calendar without installing a thing on your computer by using the web browser on your computer. However you can still use a dedicated email client which can boost productivity and adds offline capabilities. Sometimes it is just more convienient to work on a larger screen that comes […]
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Sending incoming email with bad headers to Junk
Email is always evolving and recently Gmail has started to reject email with bad headers for some customers. Rejecting email with bad headers may help protect against DKIM replay attacks (more on replay attacks in an upcoming blog). When we are talking about messages with bad headers, we mean messages that are not compliant with […]
New phishing attacks may use .zip, .mov and other new Internet domains
Beware of fraudulent activities using the newly launched .zip and .mov top-level domains. Phishing attacks have already targeted well-known brands like Microsoft and Okta. Apart from phishing, the new .zip and .mov TLDs have also been used for various malicious purposes like hosting zip bombs, redirecting to YouTube videos, and offering file compression services. Here […]
Did you know? Zimbra Postscreen provides additional protection against mail server overload
In Zimbra you can optionally enable Postscreen as an additional Anti-SPAM strategy. Postscreen will offer additional protection against mail server overload. One postscreen process handles multiple inbound SMTP connections and decides which clients may talk to a Post-fix SMTP server process. By keeping spambots away, postscreen leaves more SMTP server processes available for legitimate clients […]
Zimbra installation integrity check
The script in this article allows Zimbra administrators to create checksums of all the files in a Zimbra installation. The output of the script can be used to identify unintended changes and newly created files. Such changes can for example be caused by hackers. You can use this script pro-actively by scheduling it in a […]
Proxy the Admin Console via Zimbra Proxy increase TLS security
The Admin Console web-ui is the go-to place for managing your Zimbra installation. Historically the Zimbra Admin Console was accessed directly without Zimbra Proxy. However there is no longer a need to access the Admin Console without using Zimbra Proxy. And to make sure the Admin Console uses the best TLS security you need to […]