apologies for my late response.

Yes, you can use this guide to install Zarafa on the new Plesk. While I did not install Zarafa from scratch, I used this guide to update it to the latest version and it all went flawlessly.

When you update Plesk, you wont need to update Zarafa or follow all instructions (in fact, I have never had to change anything inside Zarafa after a Plesk update) but if you have to, these instructions will help you.

I have Plesk 9.2.2 with CentOS 5.2: I would like to know if I can use this installation method to install Zarafa, please.

Once installed, if I will update Plesk to another future version I will need to apply again these instructions? (each time I will update Plesk panel with a newer version).

Many thanks!
Best Regards
Mark

The most important thing to do is to check your error_log inside Plesk, it should tell you at least a tiny bit of what is going on and what is going wrong.

The white page reeks of a PHP error (probably permissions) so double-check that first.

Good luck!

Great toturial.
I already managed to set up a zarafa installation on Plesk 8.6 und OpenSuse 10.3

I’m currently trying the same thing with Plesk 9 and encountered a small Problem.
Zarafa is running perfectly. And some small troubles with MAPI the webaccess is now running too. But after log in, the webaccess only shows a blank white page.

I don’t get any errors in my apache log and I’m kind of stuck now.
Since the same also happens with z-push I can’t sync my mobiles which is very frustrating.

Maybe you have an idea!

My problem was that Plesk had the domain name CHROOT’d so it was not able to use the MAPI files located in /usr/share/php/mapi/. To overcome this, I had to add the following file:

/var/www/vhosts/domain.com/conf/vhost.conf

Then add the following into the file:

Options +FollowSymLinks
php_admin_value open_basedir “/var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs:/etc/zarafa/webaccess-ajax:/tmp:/usr/lib/php/modules:/usr/share/php/mapi/”

Once the above was added all working.

Hope that helps others.

Cheers
Bart

thanks for your feedback, much appreciated!

CalDAV will eventually come, of that I am sure, but for now, you are correct: mobileMe might be better suited for your needs.

I personally only sync via ActiveSync, so Zarafa works perfectly for me, that and the fact that I’d rather host my own data as opposed to having it up in the cloud.

That said, to answer your actual question: I do not use Zarafa’s gateway functions and keep email within Plesk.

I do however, modify how Qmail handles emails. See here for more information.

your how to inspired me to set up the Zarafa 6.20 from source on my Plesk 8.6 based on openSuSE 10.3.

So far I am quite impressed, especially by the active sync component z-push adds to it. But as long as no real CalDAV implementation is there and I found out how to work on ldap for my vCards this is not going to replace mobile.me for me :-)

But one question do I have - what did you do about IMAP and port 143? Do you still run imapd from Plesk ? In my case I would only move 5 email accounts (basically my family) towards zarafa when the time has come, but the other users on my server should stay on their original Plesk setup.

Kind regars,
Alex

the problem with mapi.so.0.0.0 can be solved by following Step 7 of the guide.

Great guide, however When it comes to the MAPI, I have a problem.

I get the following error:

Not Found: MAPI include files not found

However, there is no mention in ur documents about this. How did you over come this problem since the mapi.so.0.0.0 is not compatible with PHP 5.2.6 (Yet, im using 5.1.6)

Thanks
B