Installing zimbra 9 using its source code and using email client such as outlook to configure the mail accounts.

[Nishant]

Hi,

We are using Zimbra 8.8.15 OSE in our infra from past 2 years and looking to further upgrade on zimbra 9.

As zimbra 9 is an enterprise edition, we are looking at possibility to install it using publically available binaries and source code(As of now zimbra 9 OSE is not available on official website ). And further after installation we can use any email client such as outlook/Thunderbird to configure the mail accounts.

Is anyone has worked around it or have any suggestions do let us know.

Or anyone working on zimbra 9 OSE please reply.


Regards,
Nishant

[ghen]

You will get little benefit moving from 8.8.15 to 9.0 as they have the same EOL date: 31 Dec 2023. And the main feature of 9 is the "modern" UI, which is not open source.
So it could be more interesting to wait for Zimbra 10, with EOL date Dec 2025.

See https://www.zimbra.com/support/support- ... lifecycle/

[Nishant]

Thanks for reply

I am aiming to update zimbra to version 9. So how can we move from 8.8.15 to zimbra 9 without modern UI.

[BradC]

I am aiming to update zimbra to version 9. So how can we move from 8.8.15 to zimbra 9 without modern UI.

So you want to "upgrade" from a version that is supported by Zimbra and gets regular security fixes to a version that isn't supported by Zimbra and you are reliant on others building the packages? That doesn't even consider the mess that is trying to do an incremental patch update on the V9 OSS builds.

I have to ask "Why"?

[manens]

We are doing the Zimbra builds for some customers and I have the same opinion as BradC, Why ? Zimbra is providing NE builds for a cheap price regarding the maintenance cost it involve doing the Zimbra build, maintain it, the 180+ dependancies and create patch. If you consider all of this, Zimbra is inexpensive whith a good quality. You will earn a lot of time and avoid painful tasks.