Zimbra Collaboration Suite 7.0

Administrator's Guide

Open Source Edition

Managing Servers

A server is a machine that has one or more of the Zimbra service packages installed. During the installation, the Zimbra server is automatically registered on the LDAP server.

You can view the current status of all the servers that are configured with Zimbra software, and you can edit or delete existing server records. You cannot add servers directly to LDAP. The ZCS Installation program must be used to add new servers because the installer packages are designed to register the new host at the time of installation.

The server settings include:

General information about the service host name, and LMTP advertised name and bind address, and the number of threads that can simultaneously process data source imports

A list of enabled services

Authentication types enabled for the server, setting a Web mail MTA hostname different from global. Setting relay MTA for external delivery, and enabling DNS lookup if required.

Enabling POP and IMAP and setting the port numbers for a server. If IMAP/POP proxy is set up, making sure that the port numbers are configured correctly.

Index and message volumes configuration.

Servers inherit global settings if those values are not set in the server configuration. Settings that can be inherited from the Global configuration include MTA, SMTP, IMAP, POP, anti-virus, and anti-spam configurations.