Zarafa in Amazon EC2

From Zarafa wiki

To evaluate the Zarafa product, you can also try the Zarafa virtual appliance in the Amazon EC2 cloud.

The virtual appliance is based on a Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 and Zarafa 6.20.5.

Use the Zarafa virtual appliance

The Zarafa virtual appliance is available in the community section by id following id: ami-aef5ddda
After the machine is started and you are logged in, you have to configure an email domain and users.

Configure email domains

* Open the file /etc/postfix/main.cf with an text editor
* Change the mydomain option to the email domain you want to use in the machine
* Restart Postfix to activate the domain

Create users

Zarafa is configured with the internal database plugin. This mean you have to manage the users by the zarafa-admin tool. To create an user, use the following steps:

 * zarafa-admin -c username -P -f "Full name" -e emailaddress 
 

Login to Zarafa

You can use the following clients to connect to Zarafa:

 * Zarafa webaccess, available on http://public-ip-address/webaccess
 * IMAP / POP3 client, like Thunderbird and Evolution
 * Mobile devices by remote Activesync