<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div> <!--StartFragment--><div><div><div><div><div>Hello Zeta Alliance Community,<br><br>Here is a summary of this week’s conference call. 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data-mce-href="https://forums.zimbra.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=68823">https://forums.zimbra.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=68823</a></span></span></span></span><br></span></span></span></span></li></ul></li><li>Constructive feedback on these call summaries is always welcome.</li></ul></div></div></div></div><!--EndFragment--> </div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>October 20, 2020<br><br><strong>Ubuntu 18.04 & Zimbra End-Of-Life Date Mismatch</strong><br>Mark S shared that Ubuntu 18.04 is scheduled to go end of-life on April 2023, while the end-of-life date for general support of Zimbra 8.8.15 and 9.0 for Ubuntu 18.04 is scheduled for December 2023 ( <a href="https://www.zimbra.com/support/support-offerings/product-lifecycle/">https://www.zimbra.com/support/support-offerings/product-lifecycle/</a> ). He asked if Synacor has plans to release Zimbra binaries for Ubuntu 20.04 or 22.04 before Ubuntu 18.04 goes end-of-life. John H. said he already has an internal support request from July on this same question and that he flagged it for discussion in an upcoming internal Synacor meeting that occurs every 2 weeks.<br><br><strong>Microsoft Dynamics CRM Becoming A Web-Only Service In Microsoft 365</strong><br>Noah P. said that a few of his clients are using Microsoft Dynamics CRM with Outlook on their Windows desktop with Zimbra. Microsoft recently announced plans to discontinue support of the desktop version of Dynamics CRM, making it a web-only service available exclusively through Microsoft 365. While his client can continue running the deprecated Dynamics CRM product on their desktop with Zimbra, they are concerned that if Dynamics breaks for any reason in the future, the client would be forced to move their email from Zimbra to Office 365.<br><br><strong>Experiences Running CentOS 8 With Zimbra</strong><br>Noah P. said that his company is phasing out CentOS 6.x servers and evaluating if they should set their new standard to using CentOS 7.x or 8 servers. He asked if anyone had experiences to share related to running Zimbra on CentOS 8.x. Mark S. said that he is only aware of one issue affecting one of his customers running Zimbra on CentOS 8, where the Swatch service built-in to Zimbra repeatedly fails, requiring a manual restart daily and to re-run the zmsyslogsetup utility. If not restarted, this results in log rotation issues in Zimbra. This issue has been reported to Zimbra as ZBUG-1843 and was originally targeted to be fixed in Zimbra 8.8.15 Patch 15 and 9.0 Patch 8, but Mark thinks this fix may be bumped to Patch 16 and Patch 9, respectively, as there is no mention of it being included in the release notes for Patch 15 and Patch 8.<br><br><strong>How-To Enable Logging For Chats In Zimbra</strong><br>David M. asked about how-to enable logging in Zimbra for the Chat feature in Zimbra Connect so that one of his clients can receive a log of all chat sessions conducted for mailboxes in their domain, as he could not find any clear instructions in the Zimbra or Zextras documentation. Cine suggested using a Zimbra CLI command similar to “zxsuite connect getproperty” to check which properties can be set for Zimbra Connect, as one of the properties may allow for enabling logging of all chats. If available, it should produce a log with a file name similar to zxchat.log or connect.log.<br><br><strong>Follow-Up: Avoiding Backscatter Spam Topic From October 13th Call</strong><br>David M. shared that following the advice received on the October 13th Zeta Alliance call related to avoiding backscatter spam issues with an external anti-spam appliance ( <a href="http://forums.zimbra.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=68823&sid=6de245f89498f8d1f1643dd3ee20fb7a#p299380">http://forums.zimbra.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=68823&sid=6de245f89498f8d1f1643dd3ee20fb7a#p299380</a> ), he was able to successfully implement Postfix’s VRFY feature to check if a sender’s message was sent to a valid destination email alias on his Zimbra cluster.<br><br><strong>Follow-Up: Time Zone Confirmation For The New Zeta Alliance Call Schedule</strong><br>Marc G. asked for confirmation if the America/Los Angeles (Pacific) time zone will be used by all, in case of conflict between Daylight Savings Time in the United States and Summer Time in Europe, as discussed in the October 13th Zeta Alliance call ( <a href="http://forums.zimbra.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=68823&sid=6de245f89498f8d1f1643dd3ee20fb7a#p299380">http://forums.zimbra.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=68823&sid=6de245f89498f8d1f1643dd3ee20fb7a#p299380</a> ). It was confirmed that the America/Los Angeles (Pacific) time zone will indeed be used, in the event of a conflict. Cine commented that he will coordinate with Barry D. on updating this page ( <a href="https://www.freeconferencecall.com/wall/zetalliance">https://www.freeconferencecall.com/wall/zetalliance</a> ) with the updated weekly call time.<br><br><strong>Follow-Up: Updates On ActiveSync Issues Affecting Apple iOS Devices</strong><br>Noah P. asked if anyone knew of updates on the open support cases related to the ActiveSync issues affecting iOS devices, as discussed on earlier Zeta Alliance calls. Mark S. said that there is no significant news to share yet, and that he has the impression that the root issue is buried somewhere deep in the Zimbra/Zextras code base, as it is still under investigation yet. To workaround the issue, Mark explained that he has setup his phone to use Exchange/ActiveSync for syncing his calendar and contacts, but not email. This is combined with an IMAP account for syncing folders and email-only to his iPhone. He also reported that when he uses Apple Siri to call someone, it does not always work consistently, and if he then opens the Address Book on his phone to manually look-up a contact, the Address Book app will sometimes crash. He said that he does not think it is an email-specific issue, but rather an ActiveSync implementation issue. John Holder, with Zimbra Support, suggested to Mark that Apple iOS devices seem to be fussier about getting a complete folder list from Zimbra before performing any data synchronization from those folders. If a complete folder list is not received within a very limited amount of time from Zimbra, then the iOS devices reset the connection and appear to request the same full folder list repeatedly, thereby preventing any data from synchronizing with the phone.<br><br>Marc G. said that he has an issue on his iPhone when using Exchange/ActiveSync with Zimbra, in that the read/unread flag on messages does not always work consistently, as the number of unread messages per folder fails to consistently update. Mark S. commented that he feels if Synacor would consider releasing a Zimbra-branded app that customers could install on their phones/tablets, it would effectively sidestep many of the issues that arise in attempting to use Microsoft’s Exchange/ActiveSync protocol. John E. said a set of native apps for Zimbra Cloud is coming out very soon, and he thinks they will eventually make their way in to the on-premises version of Zimbra too.<br><br><strong>Follow-Up: Making It Easier For Vendors/Developers To Integrate With Zimbra</strong><br>As a follow-up to one of the October 13th Zeta Alliance call topics, Marc G. asked why Zimbra cannot offer a work-alike service to Microsoft GraphQL, so that vendors integrating with Office 365 can more easily integrate with Zimbra. John E. said that his understanding of GraphQL is that it is a transversible service where everything is referenced by name, with dependencies on multiple Microsoft-specific services, and re-creating this in Zimbra would be a significant challenge. Mark S. commented that there is a legal battle between Oracle and Google ( <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America%2C_Inc">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America%2C_Inc</a>. ) related to the use of copyrights in Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). John E. said he thinks offering a work-alike service in Zimbra for GraphQL is a deeper issue, beyond copyright concerns.<br><br>Marc G. asked, as it relates to the fundamentals of synchronizing calendar data from another vendor’s product API, is it a big ask to implement this in Zimbra. John E. felt it would be a straightforward project, but just requires proper business case justification at Synacor to allocate the developer resources, and that it could be implemented through either middleware or server-side code. Noah P. commented that any product vendor developing an integration with an email system will look at the largest 1-3 vendors, then will stop doing additional implementations beyond that point, as the software vendor typically runs out of time or budget resources. Noah felt that Google and Microsoft may be getting more preference from product vendors for integrations, since many consumers have received Google and Microsoft services for free in schools. John E. said from his personal experiences, many kids do not always like those free services and the Google/Microsoft approach can sometimes backfire.<br><br>Randy L. said that as a developer, he finds that Zimbra lacks a centralized portal for developers looking to get started with doing integration projects with Zimbra. As an example, he referenced the dedicated portals setup by merchant account providers for developers doing e-commerce integrations with shopping carts with examples like: <a href="https://developer.paypal.com/home/">https://developer.paypal.com/home/</a> and <a href="https://developer.authorize.net/">https://developer.authorize.net/</a> . Many of these merchant account providers have gone to great lengths to create step-by-step guides with lots of hand-holding for developers, significantly lowering the barrier to entry. Noah P. said that the closest equivalent he knows of for Zimbra is located at: <a href="https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Zimlet_Developers_Guide:Introduction">https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Zimlet_Developers_Guide:Introduction</a> . John E. said he could not agree more and that this is one of Barry D.’s responsibilities at Synacor, which he has been starting to work on by creating new Zimlet development how-to posts on the Zimbra blog, as the beginning of a process to aggregate this information together in to a single future portal for developers.<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div data-marker="__SIG_PRE__"><div><div><div><span style="color:rgb( 255 , 102 , 0 );font-weight:bold"><br>Randy Leiker (</span><span style="font-weight:bold"> <span style="color:rgb( 51 , 51 , 255 );background-color:rgb( 255 , 255 , 255 )">randy@skywaynetworks.com</span> <span style="color:rgb( 255 , 102 , 0 )">)</span></span><br><span style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 153 )">Skyway Networks, LLC</span><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>