Setup your MAIL Exchange server with zarafa on CentOS 6 Part 1

Hello Guys,

Welcome to the blog again I work with different issues so i come across the zarafa its an alternative to Microsoft exchange server and the best thing about it. that's free open source software.and as you know am big fan of open source software.

The Zarafa groupware provides email storage on the server side and offers its own Ajax-based mail client called WebAccess and a HTML5 based, WebApp.
Zarafa is designed to integrate with Microsoft Office Outlook and is intended as an alternative to the Microsoft Exchange Server. Connectivity with Microsoft Outlook is provided via a proprietary client-side plugin. The WebAccess and WebApp have the same “look-and-feel” as the Outlook desktop application. People used to working with Outlook should be able to use the WebAccess/WebApp without any problems.

Now, let talk about how to install and configure Zarafa Email Server on Centos 6.Install the Centos 6 minimal,we all know how we can do it.if you don't know no worry's.

just download the centos from the below URL and install it while installing it make sure you provide the correct domain name instate of localhost.localdomain and the again all options as per your requirement. like dist options and etc. etc. before stating it its for study perpose only not for production use as for production you need to have more restriction on mail server and need to configure more appropriately.you can say it that its for the proof of concept that yes this can be configured and this can be done.

so first thing first. 
    
lets download centos 6 minimal edition if you have already server setup the its ok.

Phase 1
download the ISO form the URL.

Then install the cent os on the virtual or on physical server. the first thing after that is login on server with the credentials which you have provided during the installation. after that start your network interfaces with commands

# ifup ethX 
where X is your interface nunber form 0 to anything 

after that update your centos for latest new softwares and  security patches and new stable version of kernel available at that time.
and we are done with phase1 

Phase 2
Download the MySQL,Apache,php,
By default centos 6  dont support mysl 5.6. and to reduce your admin jobs of maintenance.the idea is to install the mysl using yum from the mysql repo.
 so download the RPM of mysql repo and install in one line as

# rpm -ivh http://repo.mysql.com/mysql-community-release-el6-5.noarch.rpm

This command will downloas and install the mysql 5.6 repo in your cent os.

Then install Installation of EPEL-- Extra Packages for enterprise Linux.

# rpm -ivh  http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

after this

# yum update  -y && yum remove sendmail -y &&yum install mysql mysql-server php httpd zarafa*  postfix -y

After using this command we have done our most of the work of installation and of downloading.
This  is the end of phase 2 as just the configuration part is left behind

In the part 2 we will look the configuration of posfix and zarafa exchange server