Hi all I have always loved CentOS and with the coming of Rocky Linux I am glad It’s a continuation of something I love. My question is can Zimbra mail server run on this OS at the moment? I do some consultancy work and have clients who are running Zimbra mail server on CentOS 7. Is there a migratio…

Hi, I guess would depend on which version you are talking about. Synacor don’t package now the open-source one that free users were using, the last packages they release were Zimbra 8.8.15 OSE. From my experience, attempting to run it on a system that isn’t what the package expects would require …

iwalker, thank you so much for your response. I guess later on maybe Zimbra will make their system installable on Rocky Linux since it’s new.

I’d suggest your best course of action would be to continue using CentOS 7 as it got another three years before EOL.

Yes, I will continue that. Thank you.

@bennhana if you want to check/test I built Rocky 8 for Zimbra: [image] Rocky 8.4 minimum is different to Centos 8.1.1 minimum Rocky Linux General In case anyone is interested, a PR was submitted by someone to the zm-build repo of Zimbra for Rocky support. I have my own …

It will be nice to have Zimbra run on Rocky Linux. I guess there will be a way to migrate from CentOS 7 to Rocky. I have several clients running Zimbra on CentOS 7.

Years ago, I had Zimbra on Debian, then they dropped support for it. I was able to get my existing installation working on Ubuntu instead. It’s a bit of work doing that kind of, but not too bad and relatively straightforward - certainly much easier than when I moved from Zimbra 32 bit to Zimbra 64…

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@bennhana if you want to check/test I built Rocky 8 for Zimbra:

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