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Zimbra Shared Mailbox Toolkit

By: zetalliance

Do you have generic mailboxes for you sales department, helpdesk or info@yourcompany.com, use Zimbra Shared Mailbox Toolkit to share those mailboxes with your staff. For long time Zimbra users: this toolkit is meant to bring back family mailboxes to Zimbra 8+.

By default shares are created with SendAs rights and read/write access (rwixd). This allows the user to email on behalf of the shared account and sent mail will be go to the shared account sent folder. An outgoing mail filter and persona is set to achieve this.

Supported Zimbra versions: 8.8.15, 9.0, 10.0

Bugs and feedback: https://github.com/Zimbra-Community/shared-mailbox-toolkit/issues

Known issues

If you are using multiple email domains (example.com, example.nl), and the shared account is not in the same domain as the users account, there will be spf/dkim misalignment. See: https://github.com/Zimbra-Community/shared-mailbox-toolkit/issues/42

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Install prerequisites

  • No special requirements

Installing

Use the automated installer:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Zimbra-Community/shared-mailbox-toolkit/master/shared-mailbox-toolkit-installer.sh -O /tmp/shared-mailbox-toolkit-installer.sh
chmod +rx /tmp/shared-mailbox-toolkit-installer.sh
/tmp/shared-mailbox-toolkit-installer.sh

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Screenshot of Admin Zimlet and extension

No need to have CLI access to create/revoke root shares. alt tag

Screenshot of Client Zimlet

The client Zimlet will automatically expand the shared mailbox, so the Inbox is displayed instead of No results found. alt tag The client Zimlet will not show duplicated options when selecting FROM address. alt tag

Screenshot of additional header

Optionally an additional header is added to the email to identify the user sending email from a shared mailbox. For example it can help finding out what sales person was sending out mail from sales@myzimbra.com. The header can be set via the installer or running su - zimbra -c "zmprov mcf zimbraSmtpSendAddAuthenticatedUser TRUE" and u - zimbra -c "zmmtactl restart". alt tag

Screenshot of the installer

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CLI Commands

Installed in /usr/local/sbin an can be run as user zimbra: * subzim: Share an entire mailbox with another mailbox (root share). * unsubzim: Revoke share created by subzim command (revoke root share). * personagen: Generate personas/identities for all aliasses of an account. * removeshares: Revoke all shares from an account. One can use this for managing people going into a different department, or in case the web UI fails to load due to sharing bugs. * submachinegun: Use this in case you are missing folders in your shared account. Read in-script comments for more details.

Enable the Admin Zimlet for delegated admins

Please note that the rights implementation for Shared Mailbox Toolkit is a (dirty) UI hack, the back-end does not see the difference between a Global Administrator and a Delegated Administrator! Setting these rights is merely a work-around to show the menu for delegated admins. It is not a security feature!.

zmprov ma testadmin@example.com +zimbraAdminConsoleUIComponents zimbraClientUploadView
zmprov ma testadmin@example.com +zimbraAdminConsoleUIComponents softwareUpdatesView
zmprov grr global usr testadmin@example.com adminConsoleClientUploadRights
zmprov fc all

Explainer: Historically this Zimlet relied on the rights for Client Uploader, but this is since removed from Zimbra, while still optional, it's installation is not recommended nor required for Shared Mailbox Toolkit. Since Shared Mailbox Toolkit does not implement anything to show the Tools and Migration menu, you need to give the delegated admin View rights for at least one other item in this menu. For this you can assign softwareUpdatesView without additional rights assigned, the Software Updates feature is not usable, shows up with all blank values and disable actions.

To create a delegated admin from scratch see:

  • https://blog.zimbra.com/2023/05/discover-zimbra-10s-new-delegated-admin-wizard/
  • https://blog.zimbra.com/2021/11/zimbra-skillz-create-zimbra-delegated-administrators/
  • https://github.com/Zimbra-Community/zimbra-tools/blob/master/delegate-admin

Uninstallation

To uninstall the zimlet just remove these folders:

rm -Rf /opt/zimbra/zimlets-deployed/_dev/tk_barrydegraaff_sharetoolkit_client
rm -Rf /opt/zimbra/lib/ext/ShareToolkit
su - zimbra -c "zmzimletctl undeploy tk_barrydegraaff_sharetoolkit_admin"
su - zimbra -c "zmmailboxdctl restart"

License

Copyright (C) 2015-2023 Barry de Graaff Zeta Alliance and the _addSendAsOrSendOboAddresses patch by Michele Olivo ZeXtras

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.


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Download View on GitHub

Rating ( 5 ratings )
Downloads 4237
Latest Version 0.6
Categories Mail
Compatibility ZCS 8.8.x , ZCS 9.0.x , ZCS 10.0.x
License GNU GPL v2
Created on 10/2/16
Updated on 12/18/23

Reviews

  • The ideal zimlet to tag and filter mails ! 

    By: tairone on on 2/9/21 for version 0.5.4

    As the title says, I have it usefull to organize my pile of mails.

  • Great work 

    By: marco-shagrat on on 7/1/19 for version 0.5.3

    Just one question, isn't it possible to have e list of all ausers with delegated access?

     

    • zmmailbox -z -m user@example.com gaf 

      Replied on 2/7/20

  • mailbox 

    By: paragonservices on on 6/19/17 for version 0.4

  • Thanks Barry! 

    By: ajcody on on 12/23/16 for version 0.3

  • Amazing work as usual Barry 

    By: jdelacruz on on 10/7/16 for version 0.0.1