Posted by As information in release notes that Instant Messaging (IM)/Chat not available in Zimbra 8. The following is information in release notes Zimbra 7
Zimbra Instant Messaging (IM) capabilities are going to be removed in the next major release of ZCS. These capabilities include the embedded IM server and the Zimbra IM Client (part of the Zimbra Web Client). Zimbra IM is marked BETA and should not be enabled in a production environment and is not a supported feature.
I know this information has been there in 2/3 year ago. However, many of my clients still use Zimbra 7 and use IM/Chat as secondary communication besides email. If you want to enable IM feature in Zimbra 8, please try this guidance
cd /srv/ wget -c http://www.zextras.com/download/zextras_suite-latest.tgz tar -zxvf zextras*.tgz cd zextras* ./install.sh all
Select Y (Yes) on every question and wait until done. Perform the following command to flush cache as root user
su - zimbra -c 'zmprov fc -a zimlet'
Please login to Zimbra Admin. Select ZeXtras Suite | ZxChat. Click Deploy to install zimlet ZxChat.
# Configure users to use ZxChat (add buddy list)
After zimlet ZxChat deployed, invite/add buddy all users to use ZxChat. Login to Zimbra Admin. Select ZeXtras Suite | ZxChat. Enter distribution list that have member all users. If you do not have distribution list, please create. Or you also can add ZxChat between two users to each others buddy list. Press connect this group/these accounts. Please see the example below
Please login to webmail. You will see the ZxChat already to use
Good luck and hopefully useful 😀
Source :
Checking for the most up-to-date version of the ZAL library…
Unable to automatically determine the latest version of the ZAL library.
Please download the file located at
http://openzal.org/1.10/zal-1.10-8.6.0.jar
or check the documentation available at
http://wiki.zextras.com/wiki/ZeXtras_Suite_ZAL_requirements
about how to find out what’s the most appropriate version of
the ZAL library for your environment.
Once you have downloaded the the appropriate file,
rename it as « zal.jar » and place it in the packages subdirectory,
currently located at
/opt/zextras_suite-2.2.2/packages
Then, run the installer again.
Exiting …
Hi Jhonking,
I think you cannot download openzal via run the installer. Please download manually this openzal : http://openzal.org/1.10/zal-1.10-8.6.0.jar and place the packages subdirectory, currently located at
/opt/zextras_suite-2.2.2/packages
Then, run the installer again.
Do we need any license for this
Hi Santo,
No, you can use free for ZxChat and paid for another features (backup, ActiveSync, etc)
HI ream
we have Zimbra 8.6.1 mail server we need zimbra chat can you help me how to install
Hi Balakrishna,
You can use this guidance to activate chat on Zimbra
Hi Can we install it on multi server installation.
If yes how ?
Hi Rajesh,
Yes you can. You should install on all Mailbox Server
hi iman,
how to automatically all user to chat contact?
Hi Gugum,
You can use this guidance : https://wiki.zextras.com/wiki/ZxChat_Admin_Guide
we have Zimbra 8.6.0 mail server we need zimbra chat can you help me how to install
Hi,
I think, if you follow this guidance, you have Zimbra chat installed 😉
Hi,
http://www.zextras.com/download/zextras_suite-latest.tgz file seems corrupted it returns “gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file”, downloaded 3 times and result was the same
Hi,
Zextras chat has been obsolete and did not support. You can use Chat from Zimbra directly (zimbra-chat)