Filed with Developers Ability to use Zimbra - Custom IMAP, SMTP and POP Server [Case 59012]

[therubex]

To those of you looking to implement Zimbra, are you looking to install Zimbra remotely or on the same server as cPanel&WHM?

I would like to implement it on the same server as cPanel & WHM.

[Weaksid]

I would like to implement it on the same server as cPanel & WHM.

Same with me.

I'm trying to find a way to install Zimbra on my reseller account that has cPanel and WHM. I'm through hostforweb, so I might have to talk to them. But I want to make sure it can be done before contacting them. Unless I can install it myself and save them the trouble.

[cPanelDavidG]

I've received a vote (+1) for Zimbra Integration from a cPanel Partner NOC - #1471029

[cPanelDavidG]

Okay a few questions:
- Did you want us to support the open source version or Appliance or Network or some combination thereof? The more we need to support (e.g. migrating among product types), the more time it will take to implement.
- Zimbra has its own administration UI. Should we dump you out to Zimbra's UI or do they have an API allowing us to tie it into WHM?
- For those that use Zimbra, since it requires so much software, how has your server resource consumption been kept to a minimum? Any best practices we should be aware of?

[DomineauX]

For such a large product add-on, I would think building in the capabilities of remote mail servers which could run Zimbra or anything else would be much more beneficial to the community and provide a lot more possibilities.

[rbmrf]

Hello,

Any news about integration WHM and Zimbra, i have one costumer that is asking to integrate the platform Zimbra.

Best Regards

[cPanelDavidG]

Hello,

Any news about integration WHM and Zimbra, i have one costumer that is asking to integrate the platform Zimbra.

Best Regards

If you're interested in Zimbra, care to answer the following questions as part of our preliminary research regarding considering this feature?

- Did you want us to support the open source version or Appliance or Network or some combination thereof? The more we need to support (e.g. migrating among product types), the more time it will take to implement.
- Zimbra has its own administration UI. Should we dump you out to Zimbra's UI or do they have an API allowing us to tie it into WHM?
- For those that use Zimbra, since it requires so much software, how has your server resource consumption been kept to a minimum? Any best practices we should be aware of?

[rbmrf]

Hello,

I think the Network has everything, if we can disable some functions based on the client and what client pays/wants would be great.
To keep it simple i think would be best to integrate the Zimbra UI instead of doing another with theis API.
I used Zimbra before as a client so can't answer about resources and tips, sorry.

Best Regards.

[Zaf]

If you're interested in Zimbra, care to answer the following questions as part of our preliminary research regarding considering this feature?

- Did you want us to support the open source version or Appliance or Network or some combination thereof? The more we need to support (e.g. migrating among product types), the more time it will take to implement.
- Zimbra has its own administration UI. Should we dump you out to Zimbra's UI or do they have an API allowing us to tie it into WHM?
- For those that use Zimbra, since it requires so much software, how has your server resource consumption been kept to a minimum? Any best practices we should be aware of?

- IMO Open Source would be best to support
- Everyone here seems interested in the Collaboration features, which (I think) don't work if you used only the Webmail interface. So we need support for ZCS which probably will replace the Exim MTA and the Dovecot/Courier services
- it probably is a resource hog for sure, but with the features offered, may be worth the extra bucks spent on hardware

[alexandz]

Hello! I wonder if you can install zimbra in cpanel or on the same server?

[cPanelDavidG]

Let me merge this with the existing feature request discussion on Zimbra given you posted to the feature request forum.

[cPanelDavidG]

Further researching Zimbra, it is impractical to run Zimbra on a cPanel&WHM server that has only 256 MB of RAM (our minimum requirement). As a result, we are pursuing this by means of having Zimbra run on a separate server and then cPanel&WHM integrating with it that way rather than running everything on the cPanel&WHM server given how resource intensive Zimbra is.

[albatroz]

I would suggest pursuing a Zarafa based solution instead of Zimbra.

However if you persist in Zimbra I would suggest using the last version.

[albatroz]

If you're interested in Zimbra, care to answer the following questions as part of our preliminary research regarding considering this feature?

- Did you want us to support the open source version or Appliance or Network or some combination thereof? The more we need to support (e.g. migrating among product types), the more time it will take to implement.

I believe that opensource would be the best option to start with.

- Zimbra has its own administration UI. Should we dump you out to Zimbra's UI or do they have an API allowing us to tie it into WHM?

If you would dump Zimbra´s UI, it may work just like the way Smartermail works now with Enkompass.

- For those that use Zimbra, since it requires so much software, how has your server resource consumption been kept to a minimum? Any best practices we should be aware of?

Maybe you could create an image of Zimbra customized for working with CPanel/WHM, so people interested on this setup
could purchase this addon easier.

[cPanelDavidG]

Maybe you could create an image of Zimbra customized for working with CPanel/WHM, so people interested on this setup
could purchase this addon easier.

To maintain our existing minimum requirements of 256 MB of RAM (for example), that would require a complete rewrite of Zimbra. We would effectively need to be writing our own MUA and MTA at that point.

Having Tomcat, Apache, nginx, PHP etc. all running simultaneously is a severe drain on system resources.