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Hello,
I'm newby in zimbra with a project that is starting.
So I'm looking for dev oriented documentation :
- architecture documentation
- how to build a dev environnement (documentation I found seems-to be obsolete)
- documentation about database schema, apis, etc.

Can you tell me where I will be able to find usefull documentation ?

The goal of the project will be to implement zimlets I suppose without contributing on the core platform.

Thank you.

Regards

As a getting started point, I would recommend looking at the administrator's guide (https://zimbra.github.io/adminguide/latest/index.html). There is an architectural overview section there (https://zimbra.github.io/adminguide/lat ... l_overview).

The best means of a development environment is now the development Docker container (see https://github.com/Zimbra/docker-zcs-dev-machine). The setup described in that project couples very well with the Zimbra build (https://github.com/Zimbra/zm-build). Check the zm-build project documentation on how to set things up.

Once you have the environment, you do your development and then simply restart the services in the container to work with your updated code.

Engineering-level documentation is still available in the zm-mailbox repository (see https://github.com/Zimbra/zm-mailbox/tr ... store/docs), but most of the docs there are pretty low-level and probably not a good entry point.

Hope that helps.