Exchange ActiveSync for Zimbra Open Source Edition

If you want to obtain Exchange ActiveSync ability on your Zimbra Open Source Edition, you can integrate Zimbra and Z-push + Zimbra Backend. With it, you can synchronize email, contacts, and calendars between Zimbra and your mobile device.

This article only for Zimbra that installing Single Server. If you have Zimbra with multi-server installation, I recommend you to install Z-push + Zimbra Backend on a separate server.

This guidance has been tested on Zimbra 8.8.12 – 8.8.15

# Install dependencies

For CentOS 7

yum install epel-release -y
yum install git php-cli php-soap php-process php-mbstring -y

For Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04

apt update -y
apt install git php-cli php-soap php-cgi php-mbstring php-curl -y

Clone repo

git clone https://github.com/imanudin11/zcs-zpush.git
cd zcs-zpush/

Create folder for log

mkdir /var/lib/z-push /var/log/z-push
chmod 755 /var/lib/z-push /var/log/z-push
chown zimbra:zimbra /var/lib/z-push /var/log/z-push

Save z-push folder on /opt/

cp -rvf z-push /opt/

Note : I use Asia/Jakarta as my Timezone. Please open /opt/z-push/config.php and adjust/change Asia/Jakarta to your Timezone

Create symlink

ln -sf /opt/z-push /opt/zimbra/jetty/webapps/

Save php script on /usr/bin

cp php-cgi-fix.sh /usr/bin/php-cgi-fix.sh
chmod +x /usr/bin/php-cgi-fix.sh

Change publicHostname domain on your Zimbra into localhost

su - zimbra -c 'zmprov md yourzimbradomain.tld zimbraPublicServiceHostname localhost zimbraPublicServiceProtocol https'

Note : If you have more than 1 domain, and that domain want to use Exchange ActiveSync, you should run above command for each domains

# Backup and replace jetty.xml.in

For Zimbra 8.8.6

cp /opt/zimbra/jetty/etc/jetty.xml.in /opt/zimbra/jetty/etc/jetty.xml.in.backup
cp jetty.xml.in-for-zcs-886 /opt/zimbra/jetty/etc/jetty.xml.in
chown zimbra.zimbra /opt/zimbra/jetty/etc/jetty.xml.in

For Zimbra 8.8.7

cp /opt/zimbra/jetty/etc/jetty.xml.in /opt/zimbra/jetty/etc/jetty.xml.in.backup
cp jetty.xml.in-for-zcs-887 /opt/zimbra/jetty/etc/jetty.xml.in
chown zimbra.zimbra /opt/zimbra/jetty/etc/jetty.xml.in

For Zimbra 8.8.8 – Zimbra 8.8.12

cp /opt/zimbra/jetty/etc/jetty.xml.in /opt/zimbra/jetty/etc/jetty.xml.in.backup
cp jetty.xml.in-for-zcs-888-8812 /opt/zimbra/jetty/etc/jetty.xml.in
chown zimbra.zimbra /opt/zimbra/jetty/etc/jetty.xml.in

For Zimbra 8.8.15

cp /opt/zimbra/jetty/etc/jetty.xml.in /opt/zimbra/jetty/etc/jetty.xml.in.backup
cp jetty.xml.in-for-zcs-8815 /opt/zimbra/jetty/etc/jetty.xml.in
chown zimbra.zimbra /opt/zimbra/jetty/etc/jetty.xml.in

# Add zpush.ini into php

For CentOS 7

cp zpush.ini /etc/php.d/zpush.ini

For Ubuntu 16.04

cp zpush.ini /etc/php/7.0/cgi/conf.d/10-zpush.ini

For Ubuntu 18.04

cp zpush.ini /etc/php/7.2/cgi/conf.d/10-zpush.ini

Restart Zimbra Mailbox

su - zimbra -c 'zmmailboxdctl restart'

For testing, please access https://ip-of-zimbra/Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync from your browser. Log in with your Zimbra account. If it works, you can see the output as below. Or you can configure your mail apps on mobile devices and ensure choose exchange/activesync