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This script from Dan at Zomgee is excellent, and allows you to compile your own XPI firefox addon in under 2 minutes (using nothing more than a basic text editor and your mailserver domain name) that makes all mailto: links open up in Zimbra, not evolution of similar.  Its easy and works for me using Zimbra client on an ubuntu 9.04 linux machine with Firefox 3.0.12.  Nice work Dan.

We are recruiting a new member to our team and they have asked for a blackberry as their email device of choice, something we have never used before in house.  Having looked into this, it seems like a real can of worms.

What I would expect is that there is an easy way of connecting a zimbra server to a blackberry device using a protocol similar to IMAP or the nokia exchange server that I use on my E90 (works with Zimbra fine), but no, you have to have a separate windows box running a piece of blackberry middleware software that only connects to MSSQL type software, to which a special zimbra add on connects to .

What a faff, and I’m not doing this.  Blackberry have just lost a sale becasue the dont support Zimbra.  If you agree, consider signing this petition to ask RIM to natively support Zimbra.

In the meantime, I’m going to get a smartphone that does support zimbra like the HTC or nokia E90 we current use.

A little back end tweak here to allow multiple Zimbra email accounts to use a single alias.

Normally, you can only assign an alias to one single user, otherwise you are presented with a similar error:

Cannot add alias:
Account user@domain already has alias aliasuser@domain

We needed to be able to allow two user accounts to send emails from the same account (alias); there may be other ways to do this, but the fix that worked for us is:

zmprov ma user1 +zimbraAllowFromAddress aliasuser@domain.com
zmprov ma user2 +zimbraAllowFromAddress aliasuser@domain.com

To run these commands, You need to connect to your zimbra server (I used SSH) and then su to the zimbra user:

su zimbra

then simply enter the commands:

zmprov ma user1 +zimbraAllowFromAddress aliasuser@domain.com
zmprov ma user2 +zimbraAllowFromAddress aliasuser@domain.com

that should be all that’s needed.

This basically then allows user1 to use the alias, and user2 to use the same alias, and as far as I can tell, there are no limits to the number accounts you can apply this to. I did actually use two test accounts first to ensure of no problems, but all worked 100%.

Thanks to Matt at Senokian for the suggestion.