Having a setup of Postfix/Cyrus IMAP using LDAP-based user account/mailbox management I tried to extend this by pam_access today for disabling some of the mailboxes without deleting them. pam_access is a plugin for PAM, the Pluggable Authentication Modules, used to reject or grant access depending on a user’s name or origin of request. In a setup as described before this seems to be useful for disabling selected mailboxes e.g. to temporarily lock out tardy payers.
Jul 13
Today I’m providing information on my efforts to get a running installation of Zimbra Collaborative Suite using its Open Source Edition. It’s being installed onto a server running an up-to-date 2008.0 installation of Gentoo Linux. It’s a vServer and I tried to install from source first. But then I found a very useful tutorial putting a binary distribution of Zimbra CS into a Debian-like context running in chroot.
