Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI) Sharing Success Story by the Regional OSS Case Study Winners. MyGOSSCON 2008. En. Mohd Nazri Md Saad Pengarah Pusat ICT, Universiti Pendidikan Sulatan Idris (UPSI) Category: Infrastructure

1. University Email Management
with Zimbra Collaboration
Suite (ZCS)
Open Source Edition

2. Why Zimbra?
• RnD by Server & Networking Unit
• Other email systems – Squirrelmail, Usermin, Horde.
• Zimbra Collaboration Suite provide a better solution that suits
the need of the organization.
– Email
– Group Calendars
– Address Books
– Task management
– Web document management and authoring
• Upgrading the current email system.

3. Deployment Process
• Deployed in 4 different servers:-
– mailhost.upsi.edu.my :- this server manage 8
domains for 8 faculties. Deployment period within
one week.
– maildept.upsi.edu.my :- this server manage 4
domains for 4 main excellence centres.
Deployment period within 2-3 days.

4. Deployment Process
– mailftmk.upsi.edu.my :- this server manage mail system for
dedicated faculty (FTMK). Deployment period within 8
hours.
– mymail.upsi.edu.my :- this server manage all email account
of UPSI staff (@upsi.edu.my). Deployment period within one
week.
• Current user: 1540

5. Benefits
• To provide protection and security to user mailbox.
– ClamAV: antivirus scanner
– SpamAssassin: mail filter to identify spam
– Amavisd-new: content checkers.
• User friendly and easy to manage.

6. Benefits
• Free (Open source)
• New services:
– OpenLDAP : User authentication
– Lucene : full featured text index and
search engine
– James/Sieve filtering : create filters
for email
– Import external account using
Zimbra interface.

7. Challenges
• Hardware constraint
– Budget.
– CPU, Memory and hard disk.
• Convert unix based user id to OpenLDAP.

8. Challenges
• Migrating old mailbox to Zimbra Mailbox
using IMAP Sync.
• Educating user to use Zimbra.

9. Savings
• No cost involved.
• Shorter deployment period.
• Save time for administrative and
maintenance jobs.

10. THANK YOU