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 migration tool for CentOS 7 to Rocky? Thanks in advance

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 an override flag being used during installation, even upgrade as well. And I did attempt this for Debian once but it failed. The same would apply for the Zimbra Network Edition 9.0.0. Since their packages are made for RHEL/CentOS/Oracle Linux/Ubuntu. Zimbra 9.0.0 can be packaged yourself, I created some scripts to simplify this, but I only attempted to build RPM/DEB’s on supported platforms. In reality, this is a Zimbra problem, since they would need to support additional distros. I’ve used Zimbra since 5.x and they used to support Debian and then dropped it. Which meant I had to migrate my installation to one of their supported ones.

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 set of scripts of which I prepared that assist in making the build process much easier, and have subsequently built a version of Zimbra 9.x that works on Rocky Linux. This is because my build scripts are patching the code with the PR that is waiting to be accepted. Once Zimbra accept the PR, then I won’t need to do that anymore in my build scripts. My Zimbra build scrip…

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 bit. I doubt very much there will be a path to migrate CentOS 7 to Rocky 8 - it didn’t even exist for CentOS (or at least if there was it was rather unstable/unsupported).

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

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