Disabling Zimbra View Mail Button on Administrator Console
I've been searching for a solution to disable the "View Mail" button in Zimbra's Administrator control panel. I think this "View Mail" button is not necessary and further more it is privacy breach as administrator can see all emails inside an email account.
The new version 6.0 Network Edition seems to be able to do that as it already has Role Based delegation. However, since there are only less than 10 persons that going to use the mail server, I don't think NE edition is necessary for me.
Currently I'm testing the open source edition of Zimbra 6.0 and have been looking at its code, but unfortunately I can't find a way to disable or at least hide that "View Mail" button.
I joined the Zimbra forum and shoot a question there but it seems the community has no idea either on how to disable it. Zimbra is open source so I think it should be able to be modified, it just a matter of removing a button from its GUI, it's not changing the functionality of its core code.
I'll spend some more time to investigate on how to do this and post the result on next blog post.
June 5th, 2010 - 23:30
Hello. Will they succeed? I need to find a way to hide or disable the option to view zimbra administrator email.
June 6th, 2010 - 15:39
i found the trick for Zimbra 5.0 but not 6.0
July 29th, 2010 - 17:01
Try zafara as an alternative to zimbra
October 14th, 2010 - 18:14
You can do this task by the creation on one delegate administrator
#zmprov ma user@domain.com zimbraIsDelegatedAdminAccount TRUE zimbraAdminConsoleUIComponents
cartBlancheUI
#zmprov grr global usr user@domain.com +adminConsoleRights
#zmprov grr global usr user@domain.com -adminLoginAs
October 14th, 2010 - 19:45
is this works for the open source version or only the professional version?
October 29th, 2010 - 21:17
Just tested on ZCS 6.0 open edition, and it worked like a champ.
PS: You must firstly create the admin account and set password using the admin console, then you open the shell and run the 3 lines
#zmprov ma user@domain.com zimbraIsDelegatedAdminAccount TRUE zimbraAdminConsoleUIComponents
cartBlancheUI
#zmprov grr global usr user@domain.com +adminConsoleRights
#zmprov grr global usr user@domain.com -adminLoginAs
October 29th, 2010 - 21:23
Henrique, thanks for the confirmation!
June 22nd, 2011 - 11:51
How can I do it on Zimbra 7.1 open edition. Please help me
September 1st, 2011 - 06:57
I get this error after entering the second command:
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./zmprov ma user@domain zimbraIsDelegatedAdminAccount FALSE zimbraAdminConsoleUIComponents cartBlancheUI
./zmprov grr global usr user@domain +adminConsoleRights
ERROR: service.INVALID_REQUEST (invalid request: grantee for admin right or for user right with the can delegate modifier must be a delegated admin account or admin group, it cannot be a global admin account or a regular user account.)
./zmprov grr global usr user@domain -adminLoginAs
ERROR: service.INVALID_REQUEST (invalid request: grantee for admin right or for user right with the can delegate modifier must be a delegated admin account or admin group, it cannot be a global admin account or a regular user account.)
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Any comments on how to fix this and to eliminate the “View mail”?
thanks
September 6th, 2011 - 21:24
Worked fine on 6.0.10 but after upgrade to 6.0.14 is not working anymore…