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Zimbra Shared Mailbox Toolkit

By: zetalliance

Zimbra Shared Mailbox Toolkit (beta)

If you find Zimbra Shared Mailbox Toolkit useful and want to support its continued development, you can make donations via:

  • PayPal: info@barrydegraaff.tk
  • Bank transfer: IBAN NL55ABNA0623226413 ; BIC ABNANL2A

Demo video: https://youtu.be/8dzVqPENaBk

Do you have generic mailboxes for you sales department, helpdesk or info@yourcompany.com, use Zimbra Shared Mailbox Toolkit to share those mailboxes with your staff. For long time Zimbra users: this toolkit is meant to bring back family mailboxes to Zimbra 8+.

Designed for Zimbra version 8.7.

Bugs and feedback: https://github.com/Zimbra-Community/shared-mailbox-toolkit/issues

Report security issues to barrydg@zetalliance.org (PGP fingerprint: 9e0e165f06b365ee1e47683e20f37303c20703f8)

Stay up-to-date: new releases are announced on the users mailing list: http://lists.zetalliance.org/mailman/listinfo/users_lists.zetalliance.org

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Install prerequisites

  • No special requirements

Installing

Use the automated installer:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Zimbra-Community/shared-mailbox-toolkit/master/shared-mailbox-toolkit-installer.sh -O /tmp/shared-mailbox-toolkit-installer.sh
chmod +rx /tmp/shared-mailbox-toolkit-installer.sh
/tmp/shared-mailbox-toolkit-installer.sh

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Screenshot of Admin Zimlet and extension

No need to have CLI access to create/revoke root shares. alt tag

Screenshot of Client Zimlet

The client Zimlet will automatically expand the shared mailbox, so the Inbox is displayed instead of No results found. alt tag The client Zimlet will not show duplicated options when selecting FROM address. alt tag

Screenshot of additional header

An additional header is added to the email to identify the user sending email from a shared mailbox. For example it can help finding out what sales person was sending out mail from sales@myzimbra.com. alt tag

Screenshot of the installer

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CLI Commands

Installed in /usr/local/sbin an can be run as user zimbra:

  • subzim: Share an entire mailbox with another mailbox (root share).
  • unsubzim: Revoke share created by subzim command (revoke root share).
  • personagen: Generate personas/identities for all aliasses of an account.
  • removeshares: Revoke all shares from an account. One can use this for managing people going into a different department, or in case the web UI fails to load due to sharing bugs.

License

Copyright (C) 2015-2016 Barry de Graaff Zeta Alliance

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.


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Rating ( 3 ratings )
Downloads 572
Latest Version 0.4
Categories Business , Mail
Compatibility ZCS 8.0 or later
License GNU GPL v2
Created on 10/2/16
Updated on 5/2/17

Reviews

  • mailbox 

    By: paragonservices on 4 days, 18 hours ago for version 0.4

  • Thanks Barry! 

    By: ajcody on on 12/23/16 for version 0.3

  • Amazing work as usual Barry 

    By: jdelacruz on on 10/7/16 for version 0.0.1