Mission Critical Email

Mission Critical Zimbra Email Is All We Do
Mission Critical Zimbra Email Is All We Do

More than 160 companies worldwide rely on us for their mission-critical Zimbra Licensing, Hosting, Training and Professional Services – Since 2006.

Zimbra Certified Training
Zimbra Certified Training

We are the leading Zimbra Certified Training Partner in the United States, and we supplement Zimbra’s core curriculum with our bespoke Best Practices from 19 years of Zimbra Hosting.

Hardened Zimbra Hosting
Hardened Zimbra Hosting

We host more than 140 email domains for more than 70 global and domestic companies in our hardened Zimbra environment on Amazon Web Services.  Learn why Zimbra themselves asked us to present on AWS Hosting Best Practices at the October 2024 North American Partners conference.

Zimbra Professional Services
Zimbra Professional Services

Our Zimbra Professional Services have satisfied scores of Zimbra customers and other Zimbra partners globally. We solve thorny issues including: Zimbra 10.1 upgrades and migrations; Disaster Recovery; Security Hardening and Compliance.

Who We Are

We are the global Zimbra experts with customers in more than 20 states and 10 countries Our proprietor, Mark Stone, adopted Zimbra for his own company in 2005 and became a Zimbra Partner in 2006. ...
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What We Do

We provide our customers with email systems that are performant, reliable, secure and cost-effective — systems that meet each customer’s Mission Critical Email needs Zimbra Hosting, Licensing, Training and Professional Services Mission Critical Email is...
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Recent Zimbra Blog Posts

Fail2Ban and PCRE Script Using Zimbra’s Daily Mail Report

While Fail2Ban's automation works great, we find that reviewing the "Recipient address rejected" section of Zimbra's Daily Mail Report yields evidence of potential Advanced Persistent...
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InboxExpo Key Email Deliverability Takeaways for B2B Senders

Enhancing Email Deliverability for B2B senders' outbound transactional and marketing emails was a core track at last week's InboxExpo. This post covers several key takeaways...
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Zimbra Fail2Ban Best Practices – Updated for 2024

This post contains our current Zimbra Fail2Ban Best Practices and will show you how to configure Fail2Ban optimally on your Zimbra servers. Bad actors, overly...
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Zimbra MariaDB Performance Tuning Guide

MariaDB is the single most common bottleneck we see when doing performance tuning on customers' Zimbra servers.  This Zimbra-specific MariaDB performance tuning guide will help...
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Configuring BIND9 Caching DNS Servers For Zimbra

Zimbra servers make a lot of DNS requests, so having a locally available caching DNS server system for Zimbra to use is important. In helping...
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Zimbra Linux Kernel Tuning To Reduce Swap File Usage

Zimbra mailbox servers on Ubuntu 18/20 can benefit from Linux kernel tuning to reduce swap file usage.  This post will show you how. Note: this...
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Zimbra Security Tip – Regulate Outbound Traffic With Stateful Firewalls

Historically, Zimbra firewalling has focused on regulating only Inbound traffic, but we can better protect our Zimbra systems if we also regulate Outbound traffic by...
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Zimbra Postfix – System-Wide Sender Domain Blocking

Sometimes we want to block specific domains from sending email to any of our users.  If you followed the instructions to prevent nested address spoofing,...
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Secure Your Zimbra Distribution Lists From Bad Actors

Zimbra's Distribution Lists are widely deployed on account of their powerful productivity-enhancing features, but in a default Zimbra installation, anyone anywhere can send email to any...
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