May 24

if you’re like me, you’ll want to use your blackberry with your mail server to send and receive all of your spam messages. by default, zimbra collaboration suite is setup secure enough that a bis (blackberry internet service) server will not be able to connect to your box and push email to your phone, but there is a work around.

warning: the following howto will cause your passwords to be sent as clear text which is not recommended

1. log into the admin page by going to https://mail.<yourdomail>.com:7071

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May 02

i’m a zimbra fan and use it on a daily basis for my personal websites and my consulting business. i love the fact that they brought their web client to the desktop and that you can create and send emails while offline. one issues i had when installing the zimbra desktop client, was on reboot of the system i would get an error stating

the connection was refused when attempting to contact localhost:7633

i did a search and found out that it was caused by the zimbra service not starting upon login. to fix this, you simply need to add the following command to the session manager in system > preferences

/home/<user>/zimbra/zdesktop/zdesktop start

or

/home/<user>/zdesktop/zdesktop start

and thats it. you can download zimbra desktop from here.

Feb 26

if some of you didnt notice, there was about a 2 day downtown on my server. i had a power outage one day and i wasnt at home, so the backup battery ran out and the server fell hard. i had numerous errors upon login with no answer to be found.

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Feb 15

i have been using a php-based program called eticket to keep track of all my customer’s helpdesk requests for my consulting business for awhile now. it’s really easy to setup and use, so i thought i’ll post my setup steps to help anyone else out.

first download the latest version of eticket from the sourceforge website, then move the file to your server via ftp, ssh, etc… and unzip the archive to an appropriate directory.

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