[SOLVED] Google Apps Backend

[EnSn]

Hello,

My company is looking into ZCS for our clients and we're running it in a test environment right now. Some of our small clients are using Google Apps and other webmail solutions and I was wondering if it was possible for them to keep their existing solutions and have Zimbra pull in emails via POP/IMAP into each user's mailbox? This may only be a transitory phase for some clients and others may not want to run an email server on-site but would like to take advantage of Zimbra's collaboration features (I know there are hosted service providers but I'm thinking of an on-site setup). I was also thinking that leaving the emails on the webhost provides an additional backup and archival -- Google Apps accounts are >7GB. Is this possible or is Zimbra only capable of receiving mail via SMTP?

Thanks for any help.

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by EnSn

Is this possible or is Zimbra only capable of receiving mail via SMTP?

Yes it's possible. Look in the suer preferences under Accounts.

[EnSn]

Thanks for responding. I may be overlooking something here but I can't seem to find any options under user preferences in Accounts that would allow me to specify anything like external email account/server settings. Could you please clarify?

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by EnSn

Thanks for responding. I may be overlooking something here but I can't seem to find any options under user preferences in Accounts that would allow me to specify anything like external email account/server settings. Could you please clarify?

There's a button titled "Add External Account".

[EnSn]

Thanks for your help. I looked all over the user profile preferences under Accounts in the Administration console but had only glanced at the preferences under the user's actual account. Guess I should have done my research better, but I was pressed for time in this case. Thanks again for the prompt help!

[phoenix]

It's no problem and you're welcome.

[vavai]

Just another solution : You may also use fetchmail or getmail to fetching the mail from Google Apps and then deliver it to each mailbox in Zimbra. Make sure you use SSL mode to fetch an email from Google Apps and used username@domain.tld as your user name.

Pros : all setting on one configuration file. You do not need to add an external account for each mailbox

cons : User and password saved on plain text, but the file itself has a 710 permission mode.

Actually, I'm currently using fetchmail+Google Apps for some SME clients.

[EnSn]

That sounds like a nice solution for larger deployments. I'll have to look into the details of that for future implementations. Thanks for your input vavai.