Zimbra: Re: [SOLVED] Missing view mail button

I just spent a whole lot of useless time trying to figure out why I no longer had the “view mail” button in the Zimbra Admin Console. There are a tonne of posts about delegated admin access through grants. Certainly perhaps that’s the answer for some or most people. I however couldn’t figure it out. We’re on Zimbra 7.2 and this doesn’t seem to be affecting our Zimbra 8.6 deployment. Both of these deployments have two mailbox servers and a handful of specialized virtual machines running the MTAs and proxies.

My problem turned out to be that depending on which mailbox server you connect to for the Zimbra Admin Console determined whether or not I had the view mail button at all. Specifically if I logged in to mailbox01, the mailbox server I’m on, I will get view mail whereas if I logged in to mailbox02 I’m not given the view mail option. This only occurred because my Omnibox suddenly started preferring mailbox02’s Zimbra Admin Console over mailbox01’s.

Openssl Vagaries

This post will likely never help anyone. I needed to convert a certificate in pem format to pkcs12. It’s really easy, unless you get some a vague error.

openssl pkcs12 -export -out certificate.pfx -inkey certificate.key -in certificate.crt -certfile ca_certificate.crt

The certfile argument is likely optional, although you almost always get an intermediate certificate. You can probably also concatinate your certificate before hand, but I haven’t tried or read about it. The problem was that

I went to do this very simple task and I was presented with an error.

“unable to load certificates”

I went to verify the certificate and key.

openssl x509 -noout -text -in certificate.crt

openssl rsa -noout -text -in certificate.key

The key check worked but the certificate check didn’t. The certificate check had the same error. I went to a new system and tried the same thing and it still didn’t work. I eventually got some debuging from openssl and it had something I could go on.

140480776103592:error:0906D066:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:bad end line:pem_lib.c:802:

Bad end of line. I opened the certificate in vim and I looked. Fortunately for myself I have ocd and I noticed that the number of hyphens on the end of the last part of the file didn’t match the other three portions.

—–BEGIN CERTIFICATE—–

—–END CERTIFICATE—-

I added the remaining hyphen on the original system and the original command ran fine. I saw many people

complain about

this problem, but the threads all just ended abruptly. Perhaps this was the

same problem and they had a bad copy and paste… My recommendation is to check your work with an md5sum.

Cross Dressing Architecture: Which CPU Do I Wear?

I’m going to make this a quick post because it’s late and I am just trying to get something done… I’m cross compiling a kernel for a small device. The problem is that my work station is an i7 running 64 bit Gentoo. The target is a Via C7 and while I could probably do everything in 64 bit on the device I don’t necessarily want to double my memory register widths on a device that is cramped for memory. Gentoo has an awesome tool called crossdev that automatically built the toolchain for my target device.

The problem now is that I can’t fool make. It knows something is wrong with what I am doing. I even decided to

chroot in to a i686 only environment Make still freaked out that I was being crazy trying to compile code. The error was, “CPU you selected does not support x86-64 instruction set”! I’ve

searched around the internet and no one had

an immediate solution. Of course… I got to thinking… I’ll alter the Makefile to set the arch… changed some uname -m to echo i686’s here some ARCH=${ARCH} to ARCH=i686’s there… Still it wouldn’t compile! Even -m32 didn’t work. Make knew something was up and I realized that the make binary was doing

this check.

The solution was really simple… It’s something I did long ago to compile a 32bit kernel. Most distros ship with arch and setarch. The arch command tells you what you’re running. The setarch command sets your arch to anything you want! I want i686! Everything compiled

great after and we all had tea and scones.